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Guo Jia said: "Now Liu Bei and Sun Ce and Yuan Shu are in a confrontation, and it is difficult to advance and retreat from each other. Perhaps he already has the intention of retreating. With Zhou Ping's wisdom, if the Duke collects grain and moves troops, he is afraid that he will know in advance and be prepared. Liu Bei's troops are strong and brave, and if he returns to Xuzhou, it will be difficult to plan Xuzhou. Therefore, the Duke can assume that he will send troops to Nanyang to fight Zhang Xiu, but after the food and grass and troops are ready, he will suddenly raise his troops to the east and attack Xuzhou, and he can only get it with one attack."

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes slightly and smiled, "Haha, Liu Xuande let the three thousand soldiers from Xuyi enter Pengcheng, and five thousand soldiers left to guard Xiapi, obviously to guard me. Fortunately, the brave generals and wise men of Xuzhou are all following Liu Xuande. The people who guard the state are not worth worrying about, and they can get it with one blow."

Cao Cao was very satisfied with Guo Jia. He asked him to be his military advisor to be his military advisor.

After Guo Jia left, Cao Cao sighed: "Those who make one's own business must be such a person!"

After leaving, Guo Jia was overjoyed and said, "Mr. Cao is really my lord!"

One is to meet a good minister and the other is to meet a wise master. The two can be said to hit it off and they met too late.

To attack Xuzhou, there were many soldiers and horses. Cao Cao collected a large amount of food and grass and mobilized 50,000 troops to gather near Xudu.

A discerning person can see that Cao Cao is about to send troops.

So in order to reassure Liu Bei, Cao Cao deliberately told the public that he was preparing to send troops to Nanyang to fight against Zhang Xiu.

When the food and grass and troops were ready, Cao Cao left Xiahou and Cao Hong to lead 10,000 troops to guard Xudu. He personally led the army to leave and head east.

It was the end of November of the first year of Jian'an.

Zhou Ping had already sent a spy to defend Xudu. When he reported back to the news that Cao Cao gathered food, grass and soldiers, Zhou Ping was a little worried, but later he heard that Cao Cao was going to Nanyang to attack Zhang Xiu, thinking that everything would still be based on historical development.

Little did he know that when Cao Cao attacked Zhang Xiu in history, Lu Bu had already occupied Xuzhou, and Lu Bu was defending Xuzhou at that time. Cao Cao had to attack the weak first and then attack the strong, so he attacked Zhang Xiu first.

But now it is different. Cao Cao now wants to attack the virtual first and then the real one.

Liu Bei and Sun Ce had a stalemate in Juchao, but they could not advance, but they were reluctant to leave. They didn't know what to do.

"Sir, are we going to stay here all the time?"

All the generals were present in the commander's tent, and Liu Bei couldn't help asking Zhou Ping.

Zhou Ping thought of many ways, but none of them could be used. He asked Zhuge Liang, and even the wise Kongming was helpless.

"Sun Ce was defending the army. Yuan Shu had Sun Ce as a barrier and was not afraid for a while, and settled in Wancheng. We went to challenge Sun Ce, but he did not dare to fight. He defended the army. If he took Lujiang, it was quite difficult at present, and it was better..."

"What's worse?"

When Liu Bei heard Zhou Ping's intention, he seemed to have a turnaround and asked urgently.

Zhou Ping replied after pondering: "It's better to abandon Lujiang and attack Danyang."

"Abandon the Lujiang River? The sir means that we will retreat to Jiujiang and gather troops to cross the river to attack?"

"Yes, now only Zhou Yu and Huang Gai have 10,000 troops stationed in Niuzhu. If we retreat to Liyang, gather troops with Yun's eldest son Yi, and attack Niuzhu suddenly. If we can cross the river and seize Danyang, we can connect the three counties of Guangling Danyang and Jiujiang."

Liu Bei lowered his head and thought for a while, and said worriedly: "If we retreat, Sun Ce will raise his troops to chase him. At that time, we will have to fight on both sides, and Hefei must also divide his troops to guard the troops, and the troops seem to be insufficient!"

Zhou Ping said: "We can leave 10,000 troops to retreat to Xiang'an, so as to hold Sun Ce's troops and horses. All the remaining troops will go to Liyang and attack Niuzhu suddenly. As long as Niuzhu is broken, we will cross the river and retreat, and Sun Ce will definitely cross the river to protect Wu County."

In fact, Zhou Ping’s idea is not mature, so he has never raised it.

Because it was not easy to cross the river and conquer Niuzhu, when Liu Yao sent troops to guard Niuzhu, Wu Jing, Sun Ben and others attacked for a year without attacking the river.

After Sun Ce came, he used his courage and courage to attack.

But now the people guarding Niuzhu are Zhou Yu and Huang Gai, not Fan Neng and Zhang Ying, so it is so difficult to cross the river.

If you cannot break through Niuzhu in a short time and let Sun Ce lead his troops to chase him, and form a double attack with Zhou Yu, Liu Bei may even lose Jiujiang.

Liu Bei thought about it for a long time and felt that this was the only way to break the deadlock at the moment. He nodded and responded: "That's all!"

At this moment, a soldier suddenly hurriedly entered the tent and bowed his hand and reported, "General, Xu County has an urgent report."

"Let him in."

Before Liu Bei could speak, Zhou Ping said anxiously.

What can arouse Zhou Ping's nerves now is the news about Cao Cao.

Because at present, Cao Cao is the only force that can threaten Xuzhou.

The soldiers agreed to the promise and then left the tent. Soon a dusty inquirer entered the tent and saluted Liu Bei.

Zhou Ping asked: "Has Cao Cao sent troops?"

The instigator nodded and replied, "That's right, Cao Cao has led 50,000 troops to leave Xudu."

"Fifty thousand? Do you need to use so many soldiers to fight Zhang Xiu?" Zhou Ping asked again.

"Cao Cao was not going to fight against Zhang Xiu, he led his troops eastward, as if he was going to attack Xuzhou." The instigator replied.

"What did you say? Go east?"

Zhou Ping couldn't believe that what he heard was true, thinking that he had heard it wrong, or that the instigator had said it wrong.

Liu Bei's expression also tightened at this time, unable to believe what he had heard, so he sat upright and wanted to hear the inquisition say it again.

"It is going east, with Cao Ren leading 5,000 men as the vanguard, and he is heading eastward."

"Didn't he say he wanted to send troops to Nanyang? Why did he lead troops east?" Zhou Ping asked again.

But he knew that this must be true. He had used this move to attack the world and of course Cao Cao would use it too.

If he was Cao Cao, he would also send troops to attack Xuzhou at this time.

It was mainly because I had a firm opinion on the development of history that I thought Cao Cao would attack Zhang Xiu first and then attack Xuzhou.

Unexpectedly, it changed. Cao Cao took advantage of the emptiness of Xuzhou to send troops in advance. uu read books www.uukanshu.com

"We did not expect this matter, but even many ministers in the court and generals in Cao Cao's army could not expect it. Everyone thought he was going to send troops to conquer Nanyang, but they did not expect that the day he sent troops would go east." The instigator replied.

Liu Bei heard it clearly now, his face looked solemn and he remained silent for a long time. He just looked at Zhou Ping, wanting to hear his opinions.

"Brother, let's retreat quickly and return to Xuzhou. Cao Cao has 50,000 troops, but only 10,000 people in Pengcheng and Xiapi. I'm afraid he can't defend it!"

Everyone's faces were also serious at this moment. After the invasion went down, Zhang Fei shouted first.

"Lord, you can do it by Lujiang, and you can do it by Jiujiang. Xuzhou must not be lost! Let's retreat quickly!"

"Pengcheng only has 5,000 troops stationed in the city. Cao Cao is so good at fighting, so it will be difficult to defend for a long time. Once Pengcheng is broken, Xia Pi is in danger. Lord, let's retreat quickly!"

“…”

Before Liu Bei and Zhou Ping could speak, many generals spoke after seeing Zhang Fei speak.

"Quiet, don't panic!"

Zhou Ping suddenly roared.

This was the first time that Liu Bei heard him sound so loudly.

Liu Bei stood up and comforted everyone, "Don't panic, you must retreat, you must retreat, but if you retreat in a hurry, Sun Ce will lead the troops to chase him, so we must have a perfect way."

"That's right, why are you all panicked? Didn't you see that my elder brother and gentleman are not panicked at all?" Zhang Fei yelled.

Everyone looked at Zhou Ping and saw him slowly untiing the wine gourd hanging around his waist, pulling out the gourd plug, and pouring several sips of wine.

"Sir, sir..."
Chapter completed!