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Chapter 564 The plan begins

Gu Rubing was fighting in three places at the same time, and Zhou Yu was convinced that Gu Rubing could not hold on with such consumption.

However, Zhou Yu did not have time to think about it, as he soon received the latest battle report that the entire Cangwu County was in Gu Rubing's hands.

When Zhou Yu saw the battle report, his face changed, and he immediately sent people to contact the Xiahou brothers guarding the edge of Xiangke County, asking them to put pressure on Gu Rubing from the side, and also asked Cao Cao's three legendary generals to be prepared.

Zhou Yu led all his troops out of the camp.

Gu Rubing's all-out attack would certainly mean insufficient defense in various locations, so Zhou Yu decided to defeat them one by one.

However, not long after leaving the camp, they saw Gu Rubing with an army of 200,000 blocking the road ahead.

"Gongjin, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

"King Lie, there seems to be no need for us to address each other so affectionately, right? You should just call me Zhou Yu. We just captured Cangwu County, and there is no need to defend it. Instead, you are blocking me here. King Lie, it seems completely unnecessary for you to do this, right?"

"Of course it is necessary, because my target from the beginning to the end is not the so-called Cangwu County, but you and the 100,000 soldiers in your hands."

When Zhou Yu heard this, his face suddenly changed. He then realized that he had fallen into a trap.

Gu Rubing's goal was not anyone's territory, but the troops in the hands of Sun Jian and Cao Cao. He wanted to swallow them all in one gulp.

But Zhou Yu didn't believe it. Such a strategy could only be thought up by someone like Gu Rubing.

To muddy the waters, attack from multiple sides, and defeat them one by one, this chain of strategies, Zhou Yu would never believe it, he thought it was Gu Rubing's plan, and finally Zhou Yu thought of Zhuge Liang.

But I clearly heard that Zhuge Liang had left Gu Rubing. Could it be that there are other capable people in Gu Rubing’s army?

If this is true, then God must be too fond of Gu Rubing, right? With such an opportunity, who can be his opponent?

At this moment, Zhou Yu thought a lot and finally understood Gu Rubing's intention, but it was too late.

"withdraw."

Zhou Yu's idea at this time was very simple, that is to run. It would be better to run as many people as possible than to stay here.

"Want to run? I've been preparing for a long time."

Just as Zhou Yu turned around to leave, Pang De and his 50,000 Taishan tiger bandits appeared behind him.

The moment the two sides fought, the powerful fighting ability of the Taishan Tiger Bandits was demonstrated.

The Yangzhou army had almost no ability to resist the Taishan tiger bandits.

"Heaven wants to destroy Yangzhou."

Zhou Yu smiled bitterly.

However, at this moment, a voice suddenly sounded.

"Don't panic, Gongjin, we are coming."

As the voice fell, the Xiahou brothers appeared behind Gu Rubing with a large army.

The arrival of Cao Cao's troops was indeed beyond Gu Rubing's expectations.

I have already left tens of thousands of people at the border as a decoration. The Xiahou brothers should not dare to rush in like this.

But what Gu Rubing didn't know was that they dared to rush in entirely because of Cao Cao's order.

After learning that Gu Rubing had fought with Sun Jian, Cao Cao knew that Sun Jian was definitely no match for Gu Rubing.

He asked Zhuge Liang for advice as soon as possible.

However, Zhuge Liang rejected Cao Cao's request on the grounds that he was considering Rome and Huang Zhong from Liang Province.

In desperation, Cao Cao could only send the Xiahou brothers to provide support.

After receiving Cao Cao's order, the Xiahou brothers looked at the tight defense line ahead and hesitated, but it was Cao Cao's order after all, and they couldn't disobey it. They could only bite the bullet and charge once, so that they could report to Cao Cao.

However, he did not expect that his casual charge would actually tear apart Gu Rubing's defense line.

The seemingly indestructible line of defense turned out to be completely useless.

Looking at the chaos in the rear, Gu Rubing's face was gloomy. He originally wanted to use this opportunity to keep Zhou Yu forever, but he didn't expect that Cao Cao would ruin his plan.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Liao and Zhang He immediately went to meet them.

Zhou Yu took this opportunity and went straight back into Cao's camp.

Several people didn't stop and turned around and ran.

Looking at the people going away, Gu Rubing did not chase after them. His target this time was the Yangzhou army.

Of the 100,000 Yangzhou troops, only more than 10,000 rushed out, and the rest stayed here.

Without Zhou Yu's 100,000 troops, Jiaozhou almost completely fell into Gu Rubing's hands.

The news about Jiaozhou naturally reached Sun Jian. After hearing the news, Sun Jian collapsed in his chair.

Miao Moqing on the side was also looking at Sun Jian. She wanted to see what Sun Jian was going to do next.

At this time, Sun Jian could be said to be very helpless.

I spent a month and finally trained 100,000 people, but they were gone just like that.

Miao Moqing saw that Sun Jian was slow to speak, so she stepped forward and whispered, "My lord, Jiaozhou cannot be lost."

Sun Jian certainly knew that Jiaozhou could not be lost, but Jiaozhou was now in the hands of Gu Rubing, and it would be very troublesome for him to take it back.

At this time, Zhou Yu also rushed back from the Xiahou brothers.

After seeing Zhou Yu coming back, Sun Jian looked at Zhou Yu gloomily.

"Gongjin, don't you have anything to say?"

"My Lord, the responsibility for Jiaozhou this time is entirely mine, but I do have some intelligence. I suspect that there is an expert around Gu Rubing."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Hearing this, Sun Jian looked at Zhou Yu with confusion.

"My lord, Zhuge Liang is Liu Bei's number one counselor, and I guess he is also the only legendary counselor. But now Zhuge Liang should no longer be by Liu Bei's side. However, during this period of time, Liu Bei first attacked Yizhou, then Yangzhou, and finally Jiaozhou. It seems that Liu Bei is attacking randomly, but in fact, Liu Bei's ultimate goal is to muddy the waters so that we don't know his real purpose."

"So, Gongjin, you know?"

"Yes, my lord. According to my guess, Liu Bei's goal is our 100,000 troops, as well as the troops in Cao Cao's hands. This time, Liu Bei wants people instead of territory."

"people?"

Sun Jian looked at Zhou Yu in front of him with confusion. He always felt that there was something wrong with what Zhou Yu said. People are not as valuable as territories. As long as one has territory, one will have people sooner or later.

But for some reason, Sun Jian felt that there was nothing wrong with what Zhou Yu said, as if no matter how he explained it, it made sense.

Seeing that Sun Jian didn't say anything, Zhou Yu was not in a hurry. He knelt quietly on the ground waiting for Sun Jian's decision.

"Forget it. You have lost Jiaozhou anyway. If you had lost a city, I would not blame you, but you lost a whole state. Gongjin, you can't just let this go. You have to accept the punishment."

Hearing Sun Jian's words, Gan Ning immediately stood up.

"My lord, this time we can't blame the Grand Commander. It's just that Liu Bei and his men are too cunning. I believe the Grand Commander will not be careless next time."

"Does he want to do it again?"

Sun Jian glared at Gan Ning. Now, Gan Ning didn't know what to say.

"My Lord, I can find a way to take back Jiaozhou."

"Hmm? How can we take back Jiaozhou with the troops we have now?"

"It's simple. We can borrow troops from Cao Cao."

"Cao Cao, do you think he will give us troops? Are you kidding me?"

"If Cao Cao doesn't agree, we can only borrow troops from Rome."

As soon as he heard the word Rome, Sun Jian's face instantly became solemn.

Rome's war situation was not very good. The Parthian army had been exchanging territories with it. It seemed that Rome had not lost anything, but its territory and the Parthian territory were mixed together, restraining and suppressing each other.

Sun Jian also didn't understand why Anxi did this.

Is it just for the so-called penetration? How can there be such a penetration? When you cut off my territory, won’t your own territory also be cut off?

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Compared with Sun Jian, Cao Cao had been fooled by Zhuge Liang at this time and could not see the situation clearly at all.

Cao Cao was too hesitant to trust Zhuge Liang. He only saw Zhuge Liang's victory and did not pay any attention to what the cities that Zhuge Liang had thrown away looked like or in whose hands they were.

However, right behind them, Huang Zhong was picking up the loot happily.

Wherever Huang Zhong went, there was basically no defensive force in the city, so he just took advantage of the situation.

"Mr. Zhuge, we have occupied most of Rome's territory. Should we launch a general offensive next?"

Cao Cao still thought that everything at present was Zhuge Liang's plan for launching the final general offensive.

However, Zhuge Liang still shook his head at this time.

"Now is not the right time. We still need to wait for an opportunity."

Since Zhuge Liang said to wait, Cao Cao has been waiting.

Soon Cao Cao received a request for help from Sun Jian. After seeing the content of the request, Cao Cao laughed out loud.

"Mr. Zhuge, what do you think Sun Jian is thinking? He can't defeat Liu Bei head-on, so he actually wants to ask me for help. I've already given him face by helping him save Zhou Yu, but isn't this just taking advantage of me?"

After hearing this, Zhuge Liang did not respond to Cao Cao.

At this time, Cao Cao realized that Liu Bei was Zhuge Liang's former lord, and he should have said less to Zhuge Liang about Cao Cao.

"Then Mr. Zhuge, what do you think I should do? Should I send someone to help Sun Jian?"

"Prime Minister, please do as you please. My eyes are on the battlefield in the west. I don't care about the affairs of the Han Dynasty, nor do I want to care. But with me here, anything can be solved."

Hearing this, Cao Cao nodded and directly rejected Sun Jian's request.

Sun Jian didn't care at all about Cao Cao's rejection, as it was also within his expectations.

It didn't take long for Sun Jian to join forces with Rome and gather an army of 200,000, including two special types of soldiers, one of which was the Spartan warriors and the other was the Macedonian warriors.

With these two special types of troops, Zhou Yu has a greater chance of success.

After Gu Rubing took over Cangwu County, he began to focus on defense, but he knew in his heart that it was impossible to completely defend Cangwu County, so Gu Rubing had already made plans to retreat.

Because of the appearance of the Xiahou brothers, Gu Rubing's plan had loopholes, and he failed to defeat Zhou Yu. Moreover, the Xiahou brothers discovered the loopholes in his defense line, forcing him to reorganize his defense line. This also reduced the number of troops that Gu Rubing could mobilize by half.

Now, even if all the people Gu Rubing can mobilize are counted, there are less than 150,000 people.

The only famous generals he had were Zhang He and Zhang Liao. The rest were all transferred back to the camp to guard against Cao Cao's surprise attack.

In the camp, Gu Rubing looked at the note in his hand and couldn't help frowning.

"Is there nothing more after that?"

Gu Rubing muttered to himself as he flipped the note in his hand back and forth.

Just then, Zhang Liao walked in from outside.

"Lord!"

Gu Rubing quickly put the note away and looked at Zhang Liao.

"We just received intelligence that Zhou Yu has gathered an army of 200,000 from somewhere, and it seems that there are also people from the Western Regions among them. In addition, Gan Ning and Huang Gai are also with him."

Gu Rubing nodded after hearing this, and then said: "Get ready and retreat."

Zhang Liao also knew that the best way to deal with this situation was to retreat.

When Zhou Yu led his army to Gu Rubing's camp, the entire camp was empty, without a single person.

Zhou Yu was so angry that he kicked the brazier in front of him away.

"Liu Bei, just wait, this matter is not over yet."

With Gu Rubing's departure, Zhou Yu regained control of all places except Yulin County.

In Sun Jian's view, this attack was simply a farce. Not to mention Sun Jian, even Cao Cao, who received the news, thought so.

As for Gu Rubing, he didn't feel anything.

Just when everyone thought that Gu Rubing was just idle and had to take action, Zhuge Liang, who was far away in Anxi, smiled when he heard this information.

Late at night, when Cao Cao was about to fall asleep, Zhuge Liang suddenly left and appeared in front of Cao Cao.

"Prime Minister, it's almost done. We can start now."

Cao Cao looked at Zhuge Liang with a puzzled look on his face. He had just asked him in the morning whether now was the time to take action, but Zhuge Liang shook his head.

But now Zhuge Liang said it was okay, which made Cao Cao a little confused. But after all, he was a legendary strategist, and he was not as good as him, so naturally he did whatever he said.

Soon, Parthia launched a full-scale war. All the ambushes that had been set up before and the seemingly messy routes became clear at this moment.

Seven important towns, including Carthage, Alexandria and Milan, were besieged in an instant.

This left Caesar in the royal capital unable to react.

The map, which had been very confusing before, suddenly became clear after the Parthian Empire launched the general offensive.

Cao Cao almost gambled all his military forces on the Parthian mainland and opened up eight locations at the same time. All of this was planned by Zhuge Liang.

Looking at the map, Cao Cao was relatively relieved about the current situation. At the moment, what worried him the most was the 100,000 troops led by Huang Zhong who had been in the 36 countries in the Western Regions.

"Mr. Zhuge, will Huang Zhong's men..."

"Don't worry, Prime Minister. I have arranged 50,000 men to block Huang Zhong's troops in the rear."

With Zhuge Liang's words, Cao Cao felt relieved.

At the same time, in the Roman capital, Constantinople.

A man ran up to Caesar.

"King, there is a man outside who claims to be the envoy of King Lie of the Han Dynasty."

(End of this chapter)