Chapter 299 Cao Mengde was driven mad, Xun Yu rebelled! !
Chapter 299: Cao Mengde was driven mad, Xun Yu rebelled! !
Inside Xuchang City.

In the palace of King Wei.

Cao Mengde looked at the map with a worried look on his face.

"You mean, Liu Xuande retreated after marching to Jianmen Pass?"

Cheng Yu nodded: "That's right, Jianmen Pass is extremely dangerous, one man guarding the pass can stop ten thousand men."

"Humph..." Cao Cao sneered: "One man guarding the pass can stop ten thousand men. It depends on who is guarding the pass."

"Do you really think that any random general will be like Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Zilong?"

"How did Zhang Lu of Hanzhong defeat Liu Xuande without any famous generals under his command?!"

Cheng Yu looked embarrassed: "Replying to King Wei, Liu Bei retreated on his own, because the commander of Jianmen Pass was Zhang Yide..."

"Zhang Yide?" Cao Cao was stunned, and then pointed at Tongguan and said, "How is it possible? Our army moved, and Zhang Yide should have defended Tongguan without leaving. How could he have escaped from Guanzhong to Bashu and then to Jianmenguan?!"

"How did he know Liu Bei was going north?"

"From Tongguan to Jianmenguan, we have to go through Guanzhong and Hanzhong. There is no time at all. Could it be that Pang Tong Pang Shiyuan can really predict the future?!"

At this moment, Cao Cao was angry and confused, because it was beyond his expectations and also disrupted his plan to love him.

With Liu Bei's retreat, his strategy on the eastern front completely failed.

Zhang Fei had been stationed in Tongguan the whole time. The news from Jianmen Pass had to first pass through Hanzhong, then reach Guanzhong, and then reach Zhang Fei. Zhang Fei had to pass through Guanzhong and enter Hanzhong before he could reach Jianmen Pass. The round trip would take a month even if he traveled day and night.

However, when Liu Bei just arrived at Jianmen Pass, Zhang Yide appeared...

This……

Before Cao Cao could figure it out, more military intelligence came from Shouchun.

The person who delivered the letter turned out to be General Man Chong: "My Lord, we have withdrawn our troops from Hefei."

Withdrawn troops from Hefei?

The troops withdrew from Hefei...

Doesn’t that mean that the Eastern Front strategy has already failed?
Cao Mengde took two or three steps forward and grabbed Man Chong, furious: "Who told you to retreat? What did I tell you?!"

"Didn't Sun Zhongmou send out troops?"

Man Chong swallowed hard and said, "Jiangdong did send troops, and the King of Wu himself also arrived in Hefei."

"Then why do you want to retreat? Has Sun Zhongmou entered Hefei city?!" Cao Cao felt hopeful again. Even though he did not gain anything in Hefei, once Hefei was occupied by Sun Zhongmou, it would mean that the new generation of Sun-Liu alliance would completely collapse.

In this way, the mid-line strategy can still be implemented.

The Jiangdong navy will attack and conquer both sides of the Yangtze River, and Cao Mengde can also let Xiahou Yuan’s 50,000 troops in Kunyang enter Nanyang to attack from both sides!
"Sun Zhongmou did enter Hefei, but he did not come to attack Hefei. Instead, he came to defend Hefei together with Guan Yu..."

When Man Chong said this, Cao Cao was stunned.

You Jiangdong rat, when did you become so loyal?
impossible,
Sun Zhongmou is not that kind of person!

Taking advantage of the opportunity to steal Hefei and stab Jingzhou in the back is what these rats should do. How could they change their ways so easily?
"We were at the gates of the city, Guan Yu was defending Hefei to the death, and we also detected that the Jiangdong navy had arrived in Chaohu Lake, so we thought that the Jiangdong navy was coming to attack Hefei, so we did not dare to act rashly."

"We wanted to wait and see what would happen, but we never thought that Sun Zhongmou would appear on the city wall of Hefei that day. We were all surprised. When the generals and soldiers in the army learned that the King of Wu had arrived, they no longer had the will to fight."

Sun Zhongmou's reputation is also very famous, second only to Cao Cao and Liu Wu, and even more famous than Liu Bei.

The King of Wu, who ruled the southeast, inherited the foundation laid by his father and brother at a young age. He defeated Cao Cao at the Battle of Red Cliffs and followed Liu Wu in the northern expedition to Jingzhou. He captured Man Chong without any soldiers and scared the people out of Xiangyang City.

Later, he was crowned king together with Liu Wu and Cao Cao...

The moment Sun Quan appeared on the city wall of Hefei, Cao's army had already lost, because it meant that what they had to face was not just Hefei.

Instead, it is a strong city backed by the six counties of Jiangdong!
Soldiers, food, and weapons from Jiangdong can be continuously transported to Hefei through the navy... Yu Jin, Man Chong, and others may not be able to take down the city of Hefei even if they wipe out all 50,000 Cao troops...

"Sun Zhongmou..."

How could Sun Quan do such a thing?

Those Jiangdong rats should have taken advantage of Cao's siege to seize Hefei, or wait until Cao's army and Guan Yu were both defeated before joining the game...

"you……"

Cao Mengde covered his skull and began to have a headache.

The pain is unbearable...

"Oh my God, why are you so against me, Cao Mengde?!"

As soon as Liu Bei on the western front arrived at Jianmen Pass, Zhang Fei seemed to have wings and flew directly to Jiange. Liu Bei retreated, and the western front did not rise.

On the eastern front, Sun Quan not only did not send troops to attack Hefei, but instead went to defend Hefei together with Guan Yu. This was really beyond common sense, and it also made his plans on the eastern front completely fail.

Without the two wings to attract and share the troops, Cao Cao's central line strategy of retaking Jingxiangyang would be impossible to achieve and has become a pipe dream...

Cao Mengde considered himself to be very shrewd and had discussed the matter repeatedly with many advisers.

Once this strategy is implemented, at least one of Sun Quan and Liu Bei will take action, and Cao Cao can then send troops to support the party that takes action.

Once one side achieves results, whether Liu Bei attacks Hanzhong or Sun Quan takes Hefei, the other side, which had been keeping its troops on hold, will also send out troops for its own survival.

In this way, Liu Wu's thousand-mile defense line from Hefei to Gong'an, then to Nanyang, Hanzhong, and Guanzhong gradually collapsed in various places...

but!

This turned out to be beyond Cao Cao's expectations.

It was as if I was being deliberately targeted...

Everything was arranged clearly!

boom! ! ~
Thunder roared in the sky, and then dark clouds covered the sky. A strong wind began to howl. Cao Cao suddenly realized what was going on: "You, you, you..."

"It's you……"

……

Before Xun Yue,
After the meeting at the Prince of Wei's palace that day,
Carriages left one after another.

Boom! ~
The thunder was so loud that the vehicles rushed through the corridor and stopped at Sima Gate.

Hulala! ~
Heavy rain...

An old figure slowly got out of the car...

The rain soaked the old man's whole body, but he didn't care at all. He just lowered his head and walked in step by step.

After walking for a long time,

He is tired of walking.

I also feel tired of living.

The rain hit him hard, and he had never felt so troubled, painful, or uneasy before...

Hooray! ~
The old man looked up.
He saw the door of Chengguang Hall was suddenly pushed open, and it was Emperor Liu Xie who stepped on the imperial steps and ran over, holding an oil-paper umbrella over his head: "Awu told me that Xun Lingjun is a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty and can be trusted..."

Xun Yu was trembling all over. He sighed and said in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, the King of Wei is about to take action..."

(End of this chapter)