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"Cao Hong's excuse is really bad." After receiving Zhang He's report, Ma Han smiled coldly, "What do you think Cao Cao wants to do?"

Zhang He hesitated, and wanted to speak but stopped.

Ma Han said lightly: "Don't look at me talking and laughing with Cao Cao just now, that's just a show, politics... there's no need to worry, but it's okay to say it."

Zhang He said in a deep voice: "Things may change, and Cao Gong may change his mind."

Ma Han's eyes flashed: "Junyi said that Cao Cao had resigned again and did not intend to return the East Gate. So, what is the purpose of using the East Gate? Is it a bargaining or..."

Before Zhang He could answer, a voice came from outside the hall: "Mr. Cao has ulterior motives, so the general should be wary of it."

The sound of people came, and it was Guo Jia. The one who came with him was Xun You.

After the two of them gave Ma Han and Zhang He, Xun You looked solemn and said, "The Cao army at the East Gate has not decreased, but has shown signs of increasing. General, Shouchun is not a place to stay for a long time, so please go to Li Zuodu’s water camp first."

Xun You's meaning is very clear, and Cao Cao seems to have bad intentions. Since the East Gate of Shouchun was controlled by the Cao army, if there is an accident, the Shouchun Palace City will easily be directly attacked. At present, Li Dian's naval army is the strongest in the Lianghuai area. Although the Cao army is numerous, there are not even a few warships, most of which are small boats. They are not the opponent of the Dragon Wolf Navy on the water. Therefore, they can be in charge of the water camp to ensure that they have no worries.

Ma Han rubbed his chin and said, "And an hour ago, Cao Cao said goodbye to me, and everything seemed to be normal. It seems that Cao Cao had discovered something. You guys say, he discovered something, so he made such a decision."

Guo Jia and Xun You looked at each other and said in unison: "Jiangdong."

Coincidentally, Zhang He also said the word "Jiangdong".

Ma Han laughed: "Since you all think so, there's no mistake. Well, five days after Sun Ce died, Cao Cao got the news. It seems that his eyes and ears in Jiangdong are not low."

Xun You said: "Please set off immediately..."

Ma Han raised his hand to stop Xun You and asked, "Gongda thinks, if I avoid the water camp, what will Cao Cao do next?"

Xun You did not think: "If I were Cao Gong, I would have to attack the water camp and send a surprise army across the Huai River. In the place where the general must pass when he returned, he set up an ambush to attack him."

Ma Han continued to ask, "What if Cao Cao can't succeed?"

"If the ambush fails, you will have all your strength to take Shouchun. The advance can control Jiujiang, and at the same time, it will fight against the percussion and bribery army. Then move the military and civilians of Yuzhou to cross the Huai River. In the end, they will confront me across the river."

Ma Han raised his eyebrows: "In this way, although Cao Cao lost Yuzhou, he could achieve a connection with Jiangdong. The two sides joined forces to compete with our army. Is that true?"

Guo Jia sighed, "With the power of Cao Gong, this can be done."

"I advance step by step, and the enemy retreated step by step; they confront each other across the river, and like Yuan Shu, they fought several battles in Huainan, which lasted for three years and two years." Ma Han shook his head and decisively rejected, "I don't know when this kind of normal fighting style will end. Cao Cao is not an idiot, he will fight across the river. If he is not careful, he will be defeated. Either he doesn't fight, and if he wants to fight, he must be severely injured, just like the battle in Xia Pi. One blow hurts his vitality, two blows break his backbone, and three blows make it difficult for him to turn over!"

"It should be like this!" Guo Jia's eyebrows were dancing, and Ma Feng's words hit the hearts of this strategist who liked to take risks and won by surprise, which was very suitable for him.

Xun You said stunned: "Is the general's intention? Isn't it that he wants to... use his body as bait? This is too dangerous! Even if it can lead the enemy to take the bait, it's just that Cao Cao's fish is too big, and we lack the strength to drag it ashore!"

Ma Han smiled and said, "The opponent also thinks so, this big fish will take the bait. Otherwise, Gongda thought Cao would easily fall into the trap?"

Xun You rubbed his hands repeatedly, his expression was a little excited, and he just said, "It's too dangerous, too dangerous..."

"The most dangerous thing in this world is war. How can war be not dangerous? If I just stayed in the back with peace of mind, I am afraid I am still squatting in the corner of Liaodong, in front of the vast land king with great prospects." Ma Han stood up and paced back and forth, "There are only three people in the world who are most worthy of my risk, one is Sun Ce and the other is Cao Cao. Take some risk and kill these two people, it is worth it!"

Zhang He wanted to ask who the third person was. After thinking about it, he was probably the old master Yuan Shao, so he stopped talking and just bowed: "Please order from the general that He is willing to lead the big halberd soldiers to rob the east gate, control Shouchun, and eliminate Cao Cao's thoughts..."

The palace guards came from the palace and reported long: "Person Gan asked for a meeting."

Ma Han just nodded: "Accurate."

A burst of rapid footsteps rang out in the hall, Gan Ning's strong figure flashed, his face was full of shock and anger, and he shouted from afar: "The east gate controlled by Cao's army has been closed, and the junction of the city wall has been cut off. Several soldiers were sent to question him, but they were shot dead and injured... Cao Cao, this bastard, he wants to rebel!"

Ma Han looked calm, as if he had known this would have happened, so he turned to Zhang He and said lightly: "Look, Cao will definitely take action faster than you think."

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On July 27, Cao Cao personally led tens of thousands of troops to Shouchun and surrounded the palace city.

Cao Cao was forced to take such a risk. When Sun Ce died, there would be civil strife in Jiangdong. It would take one or two years for the Sun Wu group to reintegrate. How could Cao Cao wait? If he dragged on, he would only be defeated by Ma Han. Instead of waiting passively for this bad luck to come, it would be better to take the initiative and take advantage of the fact that Ma Han was confined to Shouchun and had few troops and siege and kill with all his strength.

Even if you lose Yuzhou, even if you destroy all the troops, as long as you can capture alive or kill Ma Han, it will be worth it!

Before launching the raid, Cao Cao had done two things: one was to order Xun Yu, who was staying at the base camp of Yuzhou, to immediately conquer troops in the county, migrate the people, transport grain and grass, and transfer to Huainan; the other was to send three envoys to issue support requests to Liu Biao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan.

Cao Cao also knew that in the end, only Liu Bei could come to help. The other two families, one was that they had more strength but were not strong enough, and the other was that they had more strength but were not strong enough, so they might not be able to send troops. But what they should fight for must be fought for, and do their best and leave their will.

At this time, the troops on both sides are distributed as follows:

Cao Cao, Cao Hong and Cao Ang led 10,000 troops into Shouchun and joined Han Hao, the commander of the East Gate, with a total of more than 12,000 troops. In addition to each of them, they divided 1,500 troops to block the west, south and north gates, nearly 8,000 troops were the main force to besiege the palace city. Xiahou Yuan and Zhu Ling led 5,000 troops to station in the Huai River to monitor Li Dian's navy. Once the navy came ashore, they would attack him head-on.

Mao Jie and Cao Pi were in charge of Xiquyang and Dangtu counties, thinking that they were backing up.

At this time, the troops of Ma Han in Shouchun were: Zhang He had 1,000 halberd soldiers, Gao Shun had 1,000 camps, Yuan Yao had 2,000 Huainan soldiers, and 500 general guards, totaling 4,500 horses, but these 4,500 horses were not gathered together. For example, Zhang He had 1,000 halberd soldiers guarding the west and south gates, and Yuan Yao also divided 1,000 Huainan soldiers to help them; while the north gate was led by Gao Lan and 500 Yuan Yao's troops jointly stationed. In Shouchun Palace, there were only 500 general guards, Gao Shun had 500 dead soldiers in the battle and 500 palace guards led by Yuan Yao.

The 1,500 amphibious elite soldiers in Ganning (Bashu soldiers and Shanyue brigades), as well as the tens of thousands of naval troops in Li Dian, were tasked with completely blocking the Huai River and cutting off all the north escape routes and transportation channels of Cao's army. As for the offensive and defensive battles in Shouchun Palace, they were not required to participate.

One thousand five hundred vs eight thousand, this time, Ma Han and Cao Cao finally face to face.

On July 28th, early in the morning, the offensive and defending sides had a meal before the battle. With a dull drum sound, four generals Cao Cao, Cao Hong, Cao Ang, and Han Hao appeared a hundred steps away from the main gate of the palace city. In front and behind them, hundreds of shield-holding soldiers were guarding hundreds of shield-holding soldiers, and wooden fences were erected in front of them. The protection was so tight-fitting. They had all deeply experienced the power of that person's shooting. How could they not guard against them?

The Shouchun Palace is quiet. If it weren't for the two rows of deer forts on the palace wall and the cold light that appeared and disappeared behind the wall, it almost made people suspect that the people in the palace had not yet woken up.

After a while, a loud Cao Zhu came out of the battle and shouted at the closed palace gate: "Envoy Cao asked the general to answer."

Less than half a moment, Ma Han held a blood bow and climbed to the left corner tower of the palace gate step by step, appeared in front of Wan Jun, with a blood bow on his finger: "Cao Cao, you are in trouble and have a bad intention, what else do you have to say?"

The Cao army was in a commotion. Except for Cao Cao, the other two generals of the Cao family and Han Hao couldn't help but shrink their heads and subconsciously avoid the direction pointed by the blood bow.

Cao Cao remained calm and smiled and said, "Life is really impermanent. Yesterday, you and I were still drinking and talking in the palace, and we met each other in a blink of an eye. The world is nothing more weird than this."

Ma Han's seven emotions remained unmoved: "Cao Cao, you know that if you do this, you will become the public enemy of the world."

"There is only one kind of person who will become the public enemy of the world, and that is the loser." Cao Cao narrowed his eyes, and every word was killed. "Ma Han, today's you are so similar to Lu Bu in Xia Pi that day."

Haha, are you playing psychological warfare? Ma Han's counterattack was fast and sharp: "Cao Cao, you'd better pray that I'm not Lu Bu, otherwise... Lu Bu almost killed you within ten steps. If it were me, he wouldn't be 'almost'!"

Ma Han's words really poked Cao Cao's lung tube. Under Xia Pi City, Lu Bu was killed by the death of Lu. This was the eternal pain in Cao Cao's heart. He never allowed anyone to take this matter before himself. The last time the person who mentioned this matter was Cao Pi, who was chased by him with a sword and chopped a mile.

And now the person who slapped Ma Han in the face was Ma Han. Cao Cao indeed drew his sword again, pointed at the man on the corner tower, gritted his teeth, and paused word by word: "I only asked once, is it a surrender or a war?"
Chapter completed!