Cao Cao smiled and said, "Okay! The right time, place, people and people are on our side. We will seize Jingzhou in one fell swoop in the spring next year!" After a pause, he said to Guo Jia, "Write a letter for me to tell Cao Ren and tell him to be careful in defense! Zhuge Liang is not a person who can play according to common sense, and may attack Nanyang!" Guo Jia agreed with his fists.

Speaking of which, Cao Ren stationed his troops in Nanyang, and received a letter from Guo Jia, he was quite dissatisfied and said to Li Dian and Cai Mao: "The Prime Minister looks down on Zhuge Liang too much! How can he do with Zhuge Villager? I am afraid that I will not be able to station troops in Nanyang by 100,000 troops? (Cao Ren originally had an army of 80,000, but after the Jingzhou incident, Cai Mao and others led 20,000 troops to join him. Therefore, Cao Ren currently has a army of 100,000)" Cai Mao immediately

He echoed: "What the General said is so true! Zhuge Liang is less than twenty years old, how capable can he be! It is as easy to deal with Zhuge Liang with the ability of the General!" Cao Ren was very happy when he heard this and laughed. Li Dian glanced at Cai Mao unhappily, clasped his fists at Cao Ren and said: "General, who are the Prime Minister and Mr. Guo Jia? Since they all care about Zhuge Liang so much, we must not be careless!"

Cao Ren was disappointed and said angrily: "The Prime Minister and Mr. Guo Jia have only heard the rumors and have never really met Zhuge Liang, so they have such doubts. It is not surprising that we, as generals leading the front, have their own opinions and judgments, so how can we follow the crowd? I think Zhuge Liang is just a boy who can play with some conspiracies, so why should we be afraid of him!" Li Dian felt that Cao Ren's statement was inappropriate, but for a moment he didn't know how to persuade him.

Cao Ren thought, "It is not difficult to see from Mr. Guo Jia's letter that the Prime Minister will use troops to Jingzhou in the beginning of spring next year! It would be better for me to send troops to seize Xiangyang first, and it would be a gift to the Prime Minister this year's Spring Festival!"

Li Dian was startled and hurriedly said, "No, General! Liu Bei now lives in Jingzhou, and his army is 200,000, which is not as idle as a vain. Besides, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are two great tiger generals. Our army only has 100,000 troops. It is obvious that we are not strong enough to defend Wancheng. How can we fight Xiangyang? It would be fine if Liu Bei and the others take the opportunity to seize Wancheng, how should we explain to the Prime Minister?"

Cao Ren laughed and patted Li Dian on the shoulder, "How can I not know these situations?" Then he walked to the Shuai case, picked up a roll of bamboo slips and threw them to Li Dian, and smiled and said, "This is what I just received, you can take a look."

Li Dian took the bamboo slips and heard Cao Ren's words and was curious. He quickly opened the bamboo slips and read them, showing a look of surprise, "This is great! I really didn't expect it!" Cao Ren smiled and said, "I have to thank Liu Bei more! How about it? With such a surprise soldier, can we be sure to win Xiangyang?" Li Dian couldn't help but nodded, but frowned again and said, "I thought that I should report this to the Prime Minister in advance before making plans!"

Cao Ren took the bamboo slips from Li Dian and said angrily: "You are a powerful general in our army, but why are you so mother-in-law and mother have no male heroism? As the saying goes, "Soldiers are the most important thing." If you ask the Prime Minister, it took more than half a month to ride a horse, and I am afraid that the mechanism will be leaked! Now that the fighter plane has appeared, how can you miss the opportunity because of this intention? I have decided and take action immediately after two days!"

Zhuge Liang was talking to Liu Bei in the hall of the governor's mansion. Now that Liu Biao's lineage is completely lost, Liu Bei has already entered the governor's mansion in Jingzhou.

Zhuge Liang said: "According to the spies' return, the Jiangdong army has withdrawn from the opposite side of Nanjun to rest. It seems that the Jiangdong army does not plan to attack us for the time being!"

Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief, and then said with some concern: "I don't know if this is Zhou Yu's trick again?" Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "I will definitely not. If I were Zhou Yu, if I used a trick, I would withdraw the army back to Chaisang and not stop in Jiangxia. The reason why Zhou Yu did this is certainly not because he wanted to give up seizing Jingzhou, but because he felt that Cao Cao was very likely to come to attack Jingzhou in the battle with Lu Bu, so he felt that his lips were dead and his teeth were cold, so he stopped attacking, hoping that we could concentrate on dealing with Cao Cao!" Speaking of this, Zhuge Liang clasped his fists at Liu Bei, "Lord, why not send an envoy to explore Sun Jian's tone."

Liu Bei nodded and asked, "Who should Kong Ming send him?"

Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "This person must be eloquent and close enough with his lord. I think this person must be Mr. Mi Zhu!" Liu Bei nodded with a smile, "Okay!" Zhuge Liang said, "In addition, he must send an envoy to Xuzhou to meet Lu Bu, explain to him the reason why he had not been able to support them before, and at the same time, he also wanted to seek Lu Bu help us in the upcoming war." Liu Bei frowned and said with some concern: "Although Cao Cao attacked Lu Bu before."

At that time, we had no choice but to not give advice, but I am afraid that Lu Bu will not listen to our explanation!..." Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "I don't think so. I think Lu Bu seems to be a rough man, but in fact he understands the way to survive. He will follow our explanations and help us. I think I'll send Sun Qian this time, and I'll give him three more tips, so that he can be sure of everything." Liu Bei nodded with a smile, "Everything depends on Kong Ming!"

At this time, Liu Feng, dressed in military uniform, ran in from outside and reported urgently: "Lord, military advisor, Cao Ren mobilized the Wancheng army to the south! Come straight to our Xiangyang!" Liu Feng, Liu Bei's adopted son, is currently the personal guard general around Liu Bei, responsible for commanding the most elite Baier soldiers under Liu Bei. In fact, the Baier soldiers are the heavy armor infantry trained by Liu Bei according to Gao Shunlian's camp under Lu Bu. However, although this army is well-trained and well-equipped, it has not been on the battlefield so far, and there is no way to know the combat power.

His eyes turned to Xuzhou. It was getting late, and Ailang ran into Xuzhou City under the support of Dian Wei and others. At this time, the lights in Xuzhou City were on, and the lively atmosphere at night had begun to appear. There were more and more pedestrians on the streets. Many vendors were busy setting up stalls. Although night was about to fall, the atmosphere in Xuzhou City was getting better. Ailang and his party returned home, Dian Wei led a group of guards to rest, while Ailang went straight into the hall.

As soon as he entered the hall, Chen Gong, who had been waiting for a while, immediately came up and said, "General!"

Ailang asked, "Old minister, I heard that there is an emergency military situation. What kind of emergency military situation is it?" As he said that, he handed the Fang Tian Hua Ji to the two personal soldiers who came up, and then untied his battle robe and handed it to another personal soldier.

Chen Gong clasped his fists and said, "I just received the news. Cao Ren led a large army to attack Jingzhou. The two sides have fought several games and have won and lost each other."

Ai Lang sat down on a table, took the teacup from his maid, took a sip, and said with a smile: "Old Chen, you are wrong this time! Cao Cao was impatient before he could wait until the beginning of spring!" Chen Gong smiled: "This time the attack on Jingzhou was not the main force of Cao's army, but Cao Ren. He led the Cao army in Nanyang to launch an attack on Jingzhou."

Ailang was surprised, "Cao Ren is a little arrogant! His Wancheng army is only about 100,000 people. How could he dare to attack Liu Bei? You must know that Liu Bei's big ears now have an army of 200,000!"

Chen Gong thought, "I guess someone in Jingzhou cooperates with Cao Ren inside and outside, otherwise Cao Ren would never have been able to conquer Jingzhou so recklessly! You know, Cao Ren is a rare talent under Cao Cao's command, so how could he do such a reckless thing?"

"Who are you talking about?"

Chen Gong shook his head, "It's hard to say. But this possibility is very high. After all, no matter how skilled Liu Bei's methods are, he will occupy the nest. I'm afraid that there are many people in Jingzhou who are dissatisfied with Liu Bei. Cai Mao has defected to Cao Cao. Although he is unpopular in Jingzhou, he is quite trusted in the army. Therefore, it is very likely that a senior general secretly surrenders to Cao Ren. That's why Cao Ren launched such an attack."

Ailang couldn't help but worry, "If this happens, will Jingzhou fall into the hands of my bastard father-in-law soon? No, I want to send an army to help Liu Bei!" Chen Gong said, "I also have this idea. I was about to suggest that the general send General Wen Yuan to lead his 30,000 troops from the Southern Army to go out to the village near the Dabie Mountains, and march into Jingzhou to rescue Liu Bei at any time." Ailang nodded, "Okay! Just do it!" Then he walked to the back of the desk and sat down, taking

A blank wooden slip came, picked up a pen and wrote an order, then took out the seal with you and put it on, then handed it to Chen Gong, and ordered: "Public platform, send someone to Shouchun immediately!" Chen Gong responded, took the wooden slip with both hands, and said: "General, we need to send someone to inform Liu Bei of our decision, so as not to cause misunderstandings." Ailang nodded, "Let Wang Dong go. Anyway, he has been to Jingzhou several times." "Yes!" Chen Gong Yingnuo said and hurried away.

Ailang was going to the backyard to have dinner with his wife and children. However, at this moment, Tian Feng rushed over and reported: "Report to the General, I just received a report from the border. Sun Qian, the envoy sent by Liu Bei, has passed the border and is now rushing towards our Xuzhou."

Ai Lang was stunned and asked, "Liu Bei's envoy?" "That's right! Jingzhou is currently facing a huge threat from Cao's army. Liu Bei sent people here at this time to gain the support of our army!"

Ailang said angrily: "Liu Bei's big ears remembered me at this time? Damn, where was he when I was fighting with Cao Cao?"

Tian Feng hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "Don't be angry! In fact, it can't be said that Liu Bei was traitorous before. After all, he was working hard to deal with Sun Jian's attack at that time, and he was overwhelmed. What ability did he have to support our army? In the current situation, we and Liu Bei are like each other, and they are both prosperous and the other are both detrimental. If Liu Bei is destroyed, our situation will be even more difficult! I hope your lord will think twice!"

Ailang laughed and said, "I'm just saying something angry, why are you taking it seriously?" Tian Feng was stunned. Then he thought of his lord's personality and couldn't help but smile awkwardly.
Chapter completed!