Faced with the embarrassing situation of the retreat being cut off, the Jiaozhou Army had extremely different opinions.

Some generals and officials led by Shi Yi believed that the "enemy army" had strong combat power, and the "enemy generals" Lu Xun and Lu Meng were extremely cunning, and it was not a good idea to fight each other with their strength.

Shi Yi advocated immediately abandoning Panyu, regaining Yulin County, and then using the vast territory of Jiaozhou to entangle with the "enemy army".

In Shijie, the Shihui brothers firmly opposed abandoning and insisted on taking advantage of the convenience of the geographical advantage to fight Lu Xun and Lu Meng. Shihui even made fun of his uncle Shiyi and fell in Lu Meng's hands several times in a row, and he had become like a frightened bird.

After several weighings, Shi Xie adopted the opinions of his two sons and decided to fight Lu and Lu in Panyu.

Shi Xie took Shitao as the main general and Shi Hui as the deputy general, and led a 40,000 army that had been pieced together. He first launched a fierce attack on the troops of Lu Meng, who had a small number of people, intending to use the priority of the number of people to defeat one side in order to gain the advantage.

The newborn brothers of the Shi family were not afraid of tigers and were full of confidence in victory. But after both sides really took over, they realized that they were wrong.

Even if Lu Meng had only nearly 17,000 troops, including the Shanyue Army, and even less than half of the Jiaozhou Army.

But the war is not just about the number of people.

Lu Meng's troops were all elite soldiers who had been tempered by fighting against Sun and Cao's army for years, as well as those strong Shanyue Army, who were by nature, who had no official warfare, and were not as strong as those Jiaozhou soldiers who had hardly experienced formal wars.

Even in terms of the quality of the weapon, the two sides are far from each other.

After three days of fierce battle, the Jiaozhou Army, which had the advantage in numbers, was in a dilemma in front of Lu Meng.

When the Shi brothers were in a difficult situation, Lu Xun began to attack Panyu City. Shi Xie was about to use his strong city to block Lu Xun for some time and wait for his two sons to play. Then cooperate internally and externally to defeat Lu Xun in one fell swoop.

But the progress of the matter once again disappointed Shi Xie, even despaired. Lu Xun's troops carried dozens of portable and detachable new Thunderbolt vehicles improved by Huang Yueying.

A total of more than fifty new Thunderbolt vehicles were bombarded and smashed Panyu City in danger and smashed the defenders into chaos. The defenders almost had no chance to fight back against the Lu Xun Army.

In desperation, Shi Xie ordered people to leave the city overnight. He ordered his two sons to return to the city to rescue the siege.

When Shiba, Shi Hui was shocked when he received a request for help. He was afraid that the city would be lost, so he quickly abandoned the fierce battle with Lu Mengdi and led the army to Panyu.

However, on the way back to the rescue, the brothers of the Shi family were ambushed by Quan Cong's troops again, and the entire army was immediately in chaos. Lu Meng, who was following the pursuit, immediately took advantage of the situation and cooperated with Quan Cong to attack the Jiaozhou army.

In the end, Shi Hui had only more than 4,000 people fled back to Panyu City in a panic. The rest of the soldiers either died or collapsed, and countless captured people were captured. Shi Tang was captured alive by Lu Meng in the chaos army.

After Lu Xun and Lu Meng met under Panyu City, they immediately surrounded the city.

After this great defeat, Shi Xie no longer had any extravagance to repel the "enemy army".

Faced with the ultimatum issued by the other party, Shi Xie sent an envoy to see Lu Xun, expressing his willingness to join the command of General Liu Huangshu, the general of the Southern Dynasty, but at the same time he hoped that he could continue to serve as the governor of Jiaozhou.

After listening to the envoy's request, he finished speaking.

Lu Xun smiled faintly, and the general Shi Xie's request to surrender gently and threw it to the envoy's ground, and replied simply and clearly: "Tell Shi Weiyan (Shi Xie) that either he opens the city and surrenders himself, or I let the army attack the city.

Apart from that, there is no third way to go.”

After a pause, Lu Xun said something that made the messenger cold from beginning to end: "Don't make any requests to me!"

After the envoy returned to the city and reposted Lu Xun's words, Shi Xie was completely desperate and wanted to leave the city to surrender. But Shi Hui firmly disagreed with surrender and arrogantly clamored to mobilize the people of Panyu to fight against Lu Xun to the end.

After receiving the reply from Shi Hui, Lu Xun stopped negotiating with the Shi family. While actively preparing for the siege, he ordered a loud voice to the soldiers around the city to read the announcement of persuading surrender drafted by the General's Mansion in the South.

At the same time, Lu Xun also sent hundreds of feather arrows with notices into the city, encouraging the generals, soldiers and civilians in the city to surrender. He also said that if he could capture the father and son of the Shi family, he would receive a heavy reward.

For a moment, panic broke out in Panyu City.

At this point, the general trend has basically been decided!

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In the late November, Liu Xian and Liu Hua and his son, escorted by Cao's army, moved to Wancheng and Yingchuan, and arrived in Xuchang, and were immediately given a visit by Cao Cao.

"………It’s a pity that Liu Pan and his group of rebels, ignored the emperor’s orders and did not care about the requests of the people of Jingxiang. They colluded with the traitor Liu Bei and let Liu Bei usurp Jingzhou.

"At Cao Cao's request, Liu Xian described the situation of Jingzhou being obtained by Liu Bei in detail.

When talking about "indignation", Liu Xian couldn't help but feel excited, knelt on his knees, and begged with tears in his eyes: "Now, the scholars and people of the nine counties of Jingxiang are all in dire straits, looking forward to the Prime Minister's rescue! First, we will serve Jingzhou and beg the Prime Minister to launch the royal army south as soon as possible, expel the traitor Liu Bei, and return the bright world of Jingzhou!"

"There are "A Letter to Reply to Jingzhou" jointly by more than a hundred clan leaders of various major clans. I beg the Prime Minister to read it!" Liu Hua, who was begging him to read it with him, also knelt down, took out a scroll of silk book from his sleeve, and held his hands over his head.

Cao Zhen took the silk book and came forward to submit it to Cao Cao respectfully.

After carefully reading the content of the silk book and the last hundred names, Cao Cao was moved and stood up and walked to Liu Xian and his son, helped the two of them up with both hands, and said with a sigh: "All the underworld is the king's land; the shores of the land are the king's ministers, Jingzhou is also one of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty (the Sili School Commander's Department is equivalent to a state, also known as Sizhou).

As the prime minister of the Han Dynasty and was entrusted by the emperor to act as the government affairs, how can we see millions of Jingzhou people suffering this?

Shuye, Ziyun, you can rest assured, but the time is right, I will report to the emperor and lead a million royal army south to defeat the rebels in one fell swoop, so that the people of Jingxiang can all be used to honor the emperor's kindness."

"Thank you, Prime Minister!" Liu Xian, Liu Hua and his son burst into tears, and once again gave a deep salute.

"I have temporarily set up a mansion for my uncle. You have worked hard all the way, so you can go back to the mansion to rest first. Another day, I will recommend you to see the emperor!"

"Thank you Prime Minister!"

When Liu Xian and his son left, Cao Cao's expression of a little excited quickly returned to his calmness. After returning to his seat, he turned to Xun Yu and asked, "Wen Ruo, what do you think of this "A Letter of the King of War Reply to Jingzhou"?"

After Liu Xian and his son walked out of the hall, Xun Yu had already taken the silk book from Cao Cao's table by himself.

After quickly reading the contents of the silk book, Xun Yu looked carefully from beginning to end again. Suddenly, a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Wen Ruo seems to have gained something, please tell me!"

Xun Yu passed the silk book to Xun You, who was in charge of the lower rank, and said calmly: "Prime Minister, this letter of invitation from a hundred people may not be true."

"How can Wenruo be sure?" Cao Cao sighed lightly and asked curiously.

"The Prime Minister doesn't know anything. Although the signatures on the silk book are similar, they may not be signed by himself, but they may be imitated by others." Xun Yu said with a smile, "Take the third Han Song's signature as an example.

From the outside alone, although it is very similar, Han Wenqi's style of writing is more solemn. This person's style of writing is more light and elegant.

In my early years, I had some interactions with Han Song and was quite familiar with his handwriting. At the beginning of this year, someone asked someone to find a essay written by him in Jingzhou. This signature was probably imitated by others.

From this point of view, other signatures may also be imitated."

"Not bad!" Xun You raised the silk book in his hand. He pointed to one of the names and said, "The signature of the Nanjun Prefect Lai Mindi here is also imitated..."

"Take it to me!" Cao Cao had not paid attention to this issue at first, and only then did he pay attention to it after hearing what Xun Yu said.

"Although I don't know who imitated these signatures, it is really amazing to be able to achieve eight or nine points similar!" Xun Yu stroked the clear beard under his chin and said thoughtfully, "Wang Zhongxuan (Wang Can) has this ability.

But with his personality, he may not be willing to do such a similar rebellious thing for Liu Xian..."

"Wen Ruo said it well. Many of the signatures here are similar in shape and spirit, especially the handwriting of some generals in the army is completely without the spirit of killing and killing!" Cao Cao himself was also a master of calligraphy. After careful identification, he found something wrong.

"Liu Xian created such a joint letter of 100 people, hoping that the Prime Minister could go south to attack Jingzhou as soon as possible, but he was probably more in order to increase his value!" Cheng Yu said with a cold smile. After the war in Youzhou was over.

Cheng Yu also ended his mission of being a military staff officer and returned to Xuchang.

"They dare to deceive the Prime Minister. The crime is really unforgivable!" Cao Hong stepped out angrily and said, "Prime Minister, do you want to take them down!"

"Zi Lian, don't be upset!" Cao Cao waved his hand lightly without showing anger and said with a smile, "Keep them, I have other important uses! Now that Hebei has been pacified, except for the alien race in the northern border, there is no worries. We can do our best to deal with Liu Bei.

In order to prevent him from disturbing me from restoring Hebei, I tolerated him several times about Jingzhou. Now it’s time to settle the accounts with him!"

"Did the Prime Minister want Liu Xian..." Xun Yu asked in confusion.

"Not bad!" Cao Cao nodded, confirming Xun Yu's guess, "Although it is not suitable to go south to fight Liu Bei at the moment, he cannot make his life comfortable. He has to bother Zhang Yide..."

"But the Prime Minister should not have too much hope..." Xun Yu was not very optimistic about Cao Cao's approach.

"Yeah!" Cao Cao nodded and changed the topic, "From what Liu Xian said just now, it seems that Liu Bei was able to get Jingzhou so easily because Zhuge Liang made trouble in it. I don't expect this person to be so deceitful..."

"In the few months before Feng Xiao left, he paid close attention to Zhuge Liang, believing that this person has the most talented people and is the first and most difficult opponent to deal with. According to the report, several plans of "Zhongma" were resolved by Zhuge Liang.

"Xun Yu said with a serious expression.

"It's hard for him. Liu Bei's Lumen land is not easy to mess with!" Cao Cao nodded and said.

"By the way, how did Zhuge Liang's relatives investigate? He still has relatives in Langya, or Xuzhou, where is Yanzhou?" Suddenly thinking of something, Cao Cao turned to Jia Xu and asked.

"Zhuge Liang's parents died in Xuzhou in his early years. He only had one brother and one brother, and now they are all under Liu Bei's rule. Prefect Meng and Shi Junzhu have also confirmed this.

In addition, he seemed to have only one relative in Xuzhou, but if he wanted to use this to make Zhuge Liang take over the Prime Minister, it would be difficult to achieve it!" Jia Xu's answer was very detailed.

"It's rare that such a talent actually fell into Liu Bei's hands!" Cao Cao sighed sadly.

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Chapter completed!