Summoning the best emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 411

"Xia Houyuan is one of the generals that Cao Cao relies on the most. There is no need for us to completely ruin the last bit of friendship between the two sides because of him. Otherwise, it would not be worth fighting him to the death and being taken advantage of by other princes. This I am afraid that this war will soon come to an end.”

Wang Meng opened his mouth softly and explained slowly.

Wang Meng did not guess wrong. With the successive defeats of several princes, Cao Cao now has no idea of ​​continuing to compete with Liu Xie on his own.

Cao Cao's current focus is still on Guanzhong and Shu. As long as he can capture either of the two lands, he can use it as a basis to achieve great achievements. Therefore, he will not fight against Liu Xie in Qiao County this time. I will be anxious to compete with Liu Xie now.

However, the strength of the Xuzhou army was somewhat beyond Cao Cao's expectations. In the past, there was an unknown Chen Qingzhi who led only [-] troops and wiped out tens of thousands of Zhang Fei and Yuan Shu's coalition forces. Later, there were generals under Yue Fei's command. He was unable to fight back, and even damaged a Xia Houyuan, which really made him feel a little bit hard to get off.

The relationship between Xia Houyuan and Cao Cao is very close, not even half as important as Cao Ren and other important generals.

Not to mention the friendship between the Cao family and Xiahou's family for generations, the personal relationship between Cao Cao and Xiahouyuan alone has always been very good.

Cao Cao broke the law when he was young, and it was Xia Houyuan who was punished in prison on his behalf.In ancient times, being in prison was a lifetime of stains.

Later, Xia Houyuan also married Cao Cao's sister-in-law as his wife, and became brother-in-law with him, and the relationship became closer.

When Cao Cao raised his army, Xia Houyuan was also the first leader who came to join him and help train the army.

Therefore, Xia Houyuan can give up the righteous reputation that the generals value most for the sake of Cao Cao's great cause and sneak attack on the young general Yue Yun, and Cao Cao will never sit idly by Xia Houyuan's miss and being captured.

As soon as he received the battle report from Qiao County, he asked his military adviser Chen Gong to go to Yue Fei's camp in person to try to exchange Xia Houyuan back.

Of course, at the same time, Cao Cao also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to make peace with Liu Xie and stop fighting.

"I never thought that Cao Cao would choose to evacuate Qiao County so simply because of Xia Houyuan. Now it seems that, as the military adviser said, Cao Cao is not willing to continue the stalemate with us."

In the Xuzhou army camp, Yue Fei and the others had just met Chen Gong, and after listening to him tell Cao Cao's thoughts and requests, and asked him to go down to rest first, everyone sat around and began to discuss.

Wang Meng was not proud of what he said, but said in a calm tone: "Cao Cao will fight if he wants to fight, and make peace if he wants to. I am afraid that even if we are willing, the lord will not agree. After all, we have the absolute upper hand now. According to my lord's temperament, I will probably take the opportunity to blackmail Cao Cao."

"There is Cao Ren's army in Qiao County. With our current strength, we can only guarantee that we will not lose the upper hand. However, it is indeed difficult to drive them out of Qiao County in a short time."

Yue Fei didn't know why Liu Xie insisted that they take down the entire Qiao County, but as a marshal and general, sometimes he didn't need to know so much, as long as he understood what Liu Xie told them to do, he just did it.

Wang Meng nodded, Yue Fei considered the entire Qiao County battlefield, but he analyzed it from a strategic point of view.

What Yue Fei said was right, Cao Ren was indeed difficult to deal with, and Qiao County was not easy to win. It is worthwhile to exchange Xiahou Yuan for the entire northern border of Qiao County, reduce casualties of soldiers, and save food and grass.

Wang Meng also understood this, but he knew that Cao Cao would definitely abandon Qiao County and withdraw his troops.In this way, sending back Xia Houyuan, an important bargaining chip, seemed a bit cheap to Cao Cao.

"The northern border of Qiao County really can't satisfy the appetite of the lord. Why is it so difficult to choose between the marshal and the military adviser? None of us can guess what the lord is thinking. In the end, it is up to the lord to decide on such a big matter."

Yang Zaixing saw that Yue Fei and Wang Meng had some disagreements, fearing that they might disagree, so he stood up and persuaded them immediately.

He has a special status, he does not belong to the establishment of the Xuzhou Army, nor can he be regarded as a member of the Yanzhou Army. He can barely be regarded as a general who leads the army alone. Even Yue Fei and Wang Meng have to give him face, not to mention what he said Reasonable, the two looked at each other and smiled, and agreed.

Immediately, Wang Meng flicked his pen and quickly wrote, and quickly sent the situation here to Xiapi, where Liu Xie personally decided.

"It's Chen Gong again, it seems that Jushou and Cheng Yu must be plotting something anxiously, otherwise, according to Cao Cao's talent-loving temperament, it would be impossible for Chen Gong, who just returned from Runan, to come to Qiao County non-stop. "

After reading Wang Meng's letter, Liu Xie was not immediately troubled by what was said in the letter, but was keenly aware of something unusual.

"Could it be that we were all deceived by Cao Cao? Cao Cao's so-called strategy of repairing the plank road in the dark did not refer to taking advantage of the opportunity to attack Runan with the mob soldiers in Yizhou, but to point the sword at Runan in the open, but secretly planning What is more terrifying and unknown?"

Liu Xie frowned and muttered, startled by his bold idea.

"If this is the case, wouldn't it mean that we have all been used by Cao Cao in this dispute over the feudal lords before and after Runan?"

As expected of the most powerful monarch in the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Xie's vigilance against Cao Cao was raised several levels in an instant.

However, Liu Xie also understood that no matter how hard Cao Cao tried to hide his intentions, he would always focus on Yizhou and Guanzhong. As long as Liu Xie asked Han Kanzhou to pay more attention to the situation in these two places, he believed that he would be able to detect some clues.

As for now, Liu Xie is thinking whether to use Xia Houyuan to cause some troubles for Cao Cao, or it is better to let Xia Houyuan and Cao Cao turn their fights into friendship?
Both have their pros and cons, and you can only weigh which one is more beneficial to you.

"For now, it's better to win Qiaojun and Sun Jian to make a deal, and change to Guangling County to make Xuzhou healthy. As for Cao Cao, his current attention is on the west, and he will not interfere with me for the time being."

Liu Xie paced for a while and made up his mind, but he was also a little unwilling.

If it is really as he expected, Cao Cao is really secretly planning something that cannot be separated from him, then it must be an extremely important matter, such a good opportunity, he took the opportunity to ask for something, as long as the request is not too excessive , I believe Cao Cao will definitely not refuse.

"What should I exchange Xia Houyuan for?"

Liu Xie was a little entangled, and after much deliberation, he didn't know what Cao Cao had under his hands that Cao Cao could give up, but what he got was useful.

Liu Xie was very distressed. When he made up his mind to choose an opponent in the future, he must find someone with a better family background. Don't be as shabby as Cao Cao, making it difficult for him to decide what to blackmail.

(End of this chapter)