Chapter 128 Cao Cao's plan 5
Because of the lack of adaptability to the local environment, although there are not many soldiers in Cao Cao's army now, as time goes by, the number of people falling ill is getting less and less, and Cao Cao is very bored.
Cao Cao simply beat the drum and gathered the generals, letting everyone discuss together to see if there is any good way to allow his army to cross the Yangtze River quickly!
But these strategists and generals from the north didn't even know how to make the wooden rafts, so naturally they couldn't make any useful suggestions. The scene was a bit cold. In the end, Xun You stood up and offered his advice:
"There are Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang who used a plan in Jiangdong, and it is difficult to break it urgently. Now many problems of building a floating bridge are difficult to solve. If the floating bridge cannot be successful, you can only force the Yangtze River by using a boat. You can send people to Jiangdong to commit surrender. As an internal supporter, you can slowly smuggle some people into the camp of the two. Only with the supporter can you force the crossing to succeed."
Cao Cao said happily: "The Lord said this is exactly what I want. You can see the generals in the army, who can do this plan?"
Xun You said: "Cai Mao was executed, and there are many generals in the army. Cai Mao's clan's brother Cai Zhong and Cai He are now the deputy general. The Prime Minister can be kind to him and sent to Jiangdong to surrender, so there will be no doubt."
Cao Cao also thought it was feasible, so he secretly called the two of them into the tent that night and asked, "You two can lead some soldiers from the headquarters to go to the Eastern Wu to surrender. Don't reveal any flaws first, wait for me to send someone to contact you. Before the army crosses the river, smuggle more than a thousand elite troops into your military camp to cover the army across the river. After the matter is completed, you will be rewarded again and don't have the same intentions!"
The two also knew that Cao Cao killed Cai Mao by mistake, but did not implicate his clan members. They were also a little grateful and quickly replied:
"My wife, children, and our elders are in Jingzhou. How dare we have two hearts? The Prime Minister must not doubt it. We will follow the Prime Minister's instructions and then take the Prime Minister's army across the river."
Cao Cao took out gold, silver and silk and rewarded the two of them with great rewards!
The next day, just dawn, Cai Zhong and Cai He each brought 500 soldiers from the headquarters, sailed several small boats, looking at the south bank with their wind.
Cao Cao's ship behind him could not catch up with him. Seeing that he was approaching Zhou Yu's water village, he could only retreat.
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Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang agreed on the Sun-Liu alliance agreement, and finally the two reached an agreement:
After defeating Cao Cao, the spoils were divided into 30% and 70% of them in Jiangdong.
In Jingzhou counties, both sides can attack at will, and whoever captures will belong to whom. However, Jiangling City has the right to give priority to the attack. Only when Jiangdong cannot capture it for a long time, Liu Bei's army will have to wait until Jiangdong retreats before attacking.
In fact, Liu Bei was still acceptable to this result. With his current strength, he only had 30,000 troops at all, and he could not conquer a strong city like Jiangling and Xiangyang. After Zhuge Liang bargained, he agreed for Liu Bei.
Zhou Yu also made a good plan. The three major cities in Jingzhou, Jiangxia, Xiangyang and Jiangling. Jiangxia is now in the hands of Liu Bei. Xiangyang cannot attack now, and only Jiangling is the most important thing!
As long as Jiangling is captured, the four counties in Jingnan will be in their palms, and they will also open up a path to attack Xiangyang.
Of course, Liu Bei would not be idle either. When Zhou Yu attacked Jiangling, he could directly send troops from Jiangxia to attack Wuling and Changsha counties, but these counties have a far worse strategic position than Jiangling!
It can be said that only by occupying Jiangling, a hub connecting the north and south, can it be considered that Jingzhou is truly occupied.
Although both sides were very satisfied with this alliance, Zhou Yu turned to discuss the advancement. Suddenly, a ship in Jiangbei came to Jiangkou and said that it was Cai Mao's younger brother Cai He and Cai Zhong who came to surrender.
Zhou Yu called in, and the two cried and bowed to the ground, and said to Zhou Yu: "My brother Cai Mao is not guilty and was killed by Cao Cao's traitors. We both want to avenge our brother, so we come to surrender. I hope the governor will give it to him and I wish to be the front."
Zhou Yu was overjoyed and rewarded the two of them very much. He ordered Gan Ning to lead the army to be in front. The two thanked each other and thought they had a plan.
Zhou Yu secretly called Gan Ning and said, "These two people did not take their families to surrender, but they did not surrender. This was the one who was sent by Cao Cao to be a spy. I want to use the tricks and teach him to inform him of the news. You can treat each other diligently and be careful not to be noticed by them. On the day of sending troops, you must first kill him two sacrifice flags. You must be careful, and you must not make any mistakes." Gan Ning took the order and left.
Lu Su watched from the side and found that Cai Zhong and Cai He's eyes were flickering. Although their cousin was killed, their surrender might not be true.
After the military discussion dispersed, Lu Su entered to see Zhou Yu and reminded: "Cai Zhong, Cai He's surrender should be a fraud and cannot be used."
Zhou Yu robbed the white man and said, "They came to surrender because Cao Cao killed his brother and wanted to take revenge. Why do you cheat? If you are so suspicious, how can you tolerate the people in the world?"
In fact, when Cai and Cai He came to join the team this time, Zhou Yu didn't ask, and directly took the second general into the front. There must be another plan.
He didn't tell the truth to Lu Su, not because he couldn't believe Lu Su, but because he was competitive!
Last time, Kong Ming expected the number of troops. Zhou Yu became more and more shocked the more he thought about it, because after Sun Quan transferred him 30,000 troops, there would be no further information!
Obviously, the 30,000 troops Zhuge Liang had long expected the army Sun Quan gave him.
Therefore, when Zhou Yu used tricks, he always wanted to hide it from Kong Ming, because Lu Su was the liaison between Kong Ming and Zhou Yu, so he would definitely not be able to tell him if there was anything.
Sure enough, Lu Su ran over to Zhuge Liang to complain.
There was no way to be entangled by Lu Su, so Kong Ming had to see through Zhou Yu's plan again and told Lu Su: "Zhou Yu is using the plan and is about to use the two of them to inform the news."
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On that day, Liu Bei gathered together to discuss matters. Because Kong Ming was not here, Liu Bei did not raise any issues, and others had no idea. There was some dismay, so Liu Bei had to say:
"When Kong Ming went to Jiangdong for several months, he had no news and did not know what was going on. Who can go to Jiangdong to find out the rewards of the truth?"
This kind of inquiry is not an envoy. Sun Gan and Jian Yong respect their own identities and are unwilling to go there. Seeing that the situation is going to be a mess again, Mi Zhu stepped out and said, "Zhu is willing to go."
Mi Zhu's choice is the best choice because he was originally a businessman and was in charge of food, grass and military supplies.
After Liu Bei made a speech, Mi Zhu prepared gifts such as cattle, sheep and wine, led several soldiers to row a few small boats, and went downstream to the Jiangdong Military Camp to find out the truth in the name of rewarding the army.
Although Ma Su's performance is remarkable, for some reason, Liu Bei was used to discussing matters with Zhuge Liang and turned a blind eye to Ma Su who was also talented!
This made Ma Su, who bet his life on Liu Bei and was determined to do something, feel a little sad!!
Now that Zhuge Liang is not here, Liu Bei seems to have no backbone. Ma Su wanted to offer advice several times, but when he saw that Liu Bei had no interest, he had to stop.
Fortunately, the war has not yet begun and there is no important thing that must be done, so Ma Su let Liu Bei do it himself!
Chapter completed!