Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 111 105. Surrender
"What's your master's name? Zhou Cang, right? Could it be Zhou Cang Zhou Ziyu?"

Feng Xi was shocked when he heard Zhou Da's words. He leaned over to look at Zhou Da with interest and asked.

"It is my master. I never thought that the general would listen to my master's orders. It is truly an honor."

Zhou Da was a little curious. Is his master so famous? The general in front of him, who had an outstanding temperament, actually said his master's name right away.

"I have heard a little bit about it. Just now you said that a letter of surrender was presented. Where is it?"

Feng Xi waved his hand and didn't bother about how he knew Zhou Qian's name. Instead, he asked Zhou Da to present the letter first.

"Yes, the letter is here."

Zhou Da took out a small bag from his arms, took out a piece of white cloth stained with ink, and handed it respectfully to the small table in front of Feng Xi.

Feng Xi took a glance and didn't see any large black areas or anything like that. Except for a bloody handprint, he didn't know if it was a recreation of The Ring, but everything else was normal text.

Feng Xi picked up the letter and read it, then touched his chin in confusion, and handed the letter to Ma Liang, who was standing beside him, asking him to pass it around. Ma Liang picked up the letter and read it, also hesitantly, and handed it to Cheng Ji.

After watching it, everyone looked a little undecided. Finally, Feng Xi spoke with a smile and asked Zhou Da.

"Do you know what the letter said about cutting off one's hair in exchange for one's head?"

"Yes, of course I know. The whole camp knows about this."

Zhou Da nodded repeatedly. Not to mention the people, I guess even the horses in the army knew about this.

"Okay, got it. Tell your master that my navy will go to pick them up in three days. Have them raise the flag."

Feng Xi seemed to be convinced and nodded.

Zhou Da was overjoyed. After a quick salute, he rode back to the camp to inform Zhou Qian.

"Grand Commander, this is quite strange. We should check and see if what this person said just now is true."

After Zhou Da left, Ma Liang bowed and gave some advice.

"No need to verify. Since he dared to write this, then the so-called embezzlement of military rations and the cutting of his hair in public by Ding Feng must be true. After all, this matter is too easy to verify."

Feng Xi waved his hands. This kind of thing couldn't be fake, because if it was known to everyone in the camp, it would be easily found out in these three days.

"But General, this man's surrender at this time is still full of strangeness. I'm afraid that Dongwu wants to repeat the old plan of Chibi."

Ma Liang still felt that this matter was weird in every way and should not be believed.

Feng Xi simply waved his hand to stop Ma Liang from talking.

"There is no need to discuss this matter any further. The other party must have surrendered falsely."

"Grand Commander, don't jump to conclusions. What if the other party is pretending to surrender...ah?" Cheng Ji originally wanted to dissuade Feng Xi, but it took him a long time to figure out that what Feng Xi had just said was "definitely a false surrender."

"Uh... Why did the Grand Commander think this was a false surrender?"

Now it was Ma Liang and Cheng Ji's turn to be confused. At most, they just thought that this matter was quite strange and difficult to tell whether it was true or not. How come Feng Xi said that this was a false surrender?
"Zhou Cang was a studious young man, and was selected as a filial and honest official for his filial piety. First of all, his character does not seem like a reliable traitor. In addition, Zhou Cang's family is not a poor family, so they don't need him to embezzle military rations to make a living, so there are many doubts about his embezzlement.

Second, how could a normal person catch someone embezzling? Let me ask you, Ji Chang, how should one embezzle military rations?

Feng Xi threw Zhou Cang's letter aside and asked Ma Liang.

"Generally, those who embezzle military rations will fiddle with the documents, lowering the actual amount of military rations received, or falsely reporting the amount of military rations needed, thereby embezzling the difference."

Ma Liang thought for a moment and replied, "There are actually two ways to embezzle military rations in this era. The first is that you only wrote that you received 80 when the higher-ups sent you 100."

The second option is that you only need eighty here, but you need one hundred if you report higher.

As for releasing fewer copies in each film, this actually only belongs to the subcategories of these two major categories.

"That's true. How could someone who embezzles military rations be like Zhou Qian, who took all the rations he could get and didn't even change the account book? If his IQ is only this high, I'm afraid he would be outwitted even if he surrendered."

Feng Xi directly pointed out the key point. Regardless of whether Zhou Qian surrendered sincerely or deliberately pretended to surrender, this method was a bit outrageous. Even if it was true, this person's IQ would not be very high.

"Then the secret letter said that he could seize a few grain transport ships in a few days while transporting grain to the navy camp, and defect with a large amount of grain and grass. He needed our army to pick him up. This was a blatant trick to lure the enemy."

Feng Xi pointed out the key point with disdain. After all, the main purpose of his false surrender plan was to create a persona, portraying himself as a grain and grass officer who was discovered to have embezzled and wanted to defect.

If you want to fool the ancients of the same time, you may be able to get away with it by using the plot of "shaving the hair instead of the head", but Feng Xi would never believe this. It's just cutting a strand of hair. You wouldn't believe it even if you cut off your arm.

What's more, the person who offered surrender was Zhou Cang, which made Feng Xi unable to believe that this was a real surrender and not a false one.

What is the most outstanding thing about Zhou Cang in history books? It is the Battle of Shiting. So why did the Battle of Shiting happen?
The answer is that Zhou Cang pretended to be investigated by Sun Quan, wrote a letter to Cao Xiu to feign surrender, asked Cao Xiu to come to pick him up, and then personally cut his hair and apologized at the gate of Poyang County, thereby increasing his credibility.

Poor Cao Xiu was unaware of the difficulties and dangers of the world. After hearing about it, he believed it even more and personally led an army of 100,000 to support the enemy. However, he was defeated by Lu Xun, Quan Cong, Zhu Huan and other generals. Fortunately, Jia Kui came to the rescue, otherwise Cao Xiu might not have been able to escape.

Nowadays, things are unpredictable. Lu Xun has been out of business for almost a month, and Zhou Cang has appeared seven years earlier, presenting a big drama of "Zhou Cang cuts off his hair to make money from Feng Xi".

But it's normal to think about it. If they line up to attack each other, the Wu army on the opposite side will not have the advantage in terms of quantity or quality. They can only make a comeback through some strange strategies. The favorite strategy of the Eastern Wu is fire attack, and it is also the easiest means to make up for the gap between the two sides.

Feng Xi thought about it for a while and roughly guessed the process of Zhou Cang's plan. Then the rest was to use the enemy's strategy against him. If this plan succeeded, the Han army's navy would be defeated by the Wu army and there would be no possibility of advancing eastward.

But on the other hand, if Feng Xi could take advantage of this opportunity to completely destroy the Eastern Wu navy, then the Eastern Wu army on the shore would also be unable to escape.

Then all Feng Xi needed to do was to go down the river, head straight to Jiangxia, then go east to Chaisang and spy on Wu.

At this moment, Zhou Cang's plan of feigning surrender became the key to the struggle between the two sides. No matter which side it was, they needed to win the naval battle three days later and beat the other side without any chance of turning the tables.

(End of this chapter)