Xuzhou.
Cheng Yu, who was originally confronting Zang Ba, welcomed a distinguished person.
"Your Majesty...why are you here?"
Cheng Yu quickly knelt down and kowtowed. He knew that Cao Pi was more concerned about face than Cao Cao back then.
"Zhongde, please get up quickly. You are an old minister of the late emperor, so you don't need to be so polite to me."
Cao Pi sneered and said: "The Sun and Liu families can fall out over Jingzhou, and I, the Wei Dynasty, can also take this opportunity to take back Xuzhou."
Cheng Yu was a little confused. Did Fancheng and Xiangyang just give up to Liu Mang?
"Your Majesty... please forgive me for my confusion. If Fancheng and King Xiang are to be evacuated, what about the 50,000 soldiers stationed here?"
Cheng Yu once used villagers to make preserved meat to pay for the army.
He is an out-and-out iron-blooded man, a soldier at heart.
Cheng Yu never wanted Cao Pi to say that he would give up his soldiers, but unfortunately Sima Yi on the side spoke.
"Zhongde, you didn't see through His Majesty's intentions. You are really old!"
"Jingxiang is the place of the Four Wars. Even if we, the Wei Dynasty, own this place, we will continue to be invaded by Liu Bei and Sun Quan."
"Jingzhou is of no use to me, the Wei Dynasty, but the Sun and Liu families are bound to win it."
Sima Yi smiled slyly, Cheng Yu seemed to have understood what the other party was thinking.
"Your Majesty... you tried so hard to get Liu Mang to send troops to Fancheng, just to make the Sun and Liu families completely turn against each other!"
"Liu Mang's capture of Fancheng will only make Sun Quan even more jealous!"
"And you will take the opportunity to come to Xuzhou to deal with Zang Ba?"
Cheng Yu felt that Cao Pi in front of him was quite cunning, but his method of deceiving the enemy was really too cruel!
Fifty thousand Wei soldiers were abandoned in this way, including the late Emperor Cao Cao's favorite general, Le Jin.
"Zhongde, Zang Ba probably doesn't know that I'm here yet."
"Order Zhang Liao and Xu Huang to attack the enemy's positions!"
"This time, I want to completely take Xuzhou, which Emperor Wu didn't capture, into my own!"
The sudden appearance of generals Zhang Liao and Xu Huang completely broke the balance of the war.
Zang Ba couldn't resist at all, so he could only retreat again and again. Finally, in desperation, he retreated to Mount Tai and became a veritable Mount Tai thief.
Cao Pi used Fancheng and Xiangyang as bait to attract Liu Mang's attention, induce Sun Quan to backstab, and then pacified Xuzhou.
Sima Yi's original intention was to coax Zang Ba to go to Luoyang to meet the Holy Spirit, but Cao Pi directly overturned his idea.
He was stunned to have played such a trick and took Xuzhou back.
"Although Liu Mang captured Fancheng, it was already flooded. Even if he captured Xiangyang, the food and grass in the city had been diverted by Boren."
"Except for the loss of 50,000 soldiers, Yue Jin and Yu Jin, I have gained all the land in Xuzhou!"
"It even caused the Sun and Liu families to completely turn against each other! Zhongde, I dare to ask, do I make a profit or a loss in this business?"
Cao Pi looked at Cheng Yu jokingly, waiting for the other party's answer.
Cheng Yu sighed secretly in his heart, but he had always been upright and disdainful of lying.
"Your Majesty, you have made money in Xuzhou, but you have lost people's hearts..."
"On the other hand, Liu Bei and his son are the best at winning people's hearts!"
"I hope your majesty can treat Xuzhou prisoners kindly and don't treat them badly..."
Before Cheng Yu finished speaking, he noticed Cao Pi's cold eyes.
"These insects following Zang Ba are all traitors of the Wei Dynasty. It will be difficult for me to satisfy my hatred unless I kill them!"
"But for the sake of Zhongde's plea, I will let them live and go to the battlefield again in the future to be used by me!"
Cao Pi waved his sleeves. He wanted to hear Cheng Yu's kind words, but the result was not satisfactory.
…
Fancheng.
The Han army drained water for several days before Liu Mang could enter the city.
In this battle, Liu Mang flooded Fancheng and drowned 20,000 Cao's troops. The remaining Cao troops were directly captured by him.
"Your Majesty, what should we do with these prisoners?"
"It's not realistic for them to deal with Cao Pi now. After all, their families are still in the Central Plains."
After Zhao Yun defeated Xia Houshang, he led his army directly to Xiangyang.
Cao Zhi's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry only resisted symbolically, and then led the army away. They already knew Cao Pi's general strategy.
Although he didn't say it with his mouth, he was scolding Cao Pi for not being a human being in his heart!
"Uncle Zhao, the best way is to let Cao Pi think that they died in Fancheng, so that his family will not be embarrassed."
"One group went to Jiaozhou to farm, and the other group was sent to Liangzhou to raise horses."
Liu Mang made such an arrangement, and the generals readily agreed.
It's just that Fancheng, as an important stronghold, is now completely in ruins.
"It will take at least three to five years to bring Fancheng back to life."
Gan Ning sighed, "Cao Pi, a bastard, actually escaped long ago!"
"The brothers who harmed our Jinfan have been searched for several days!"
Liu Mang nodded. If Cao Pi could be killed in this battle, the Central Plains would be in chaos.
Not long after Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, his power was not yet stable.
Just say that Cao Zhang and Cao Zhi are not the masters of peace.
"If Cao Pi's goal is not Fancheng, then he wants to pacify Xuzhou!"
"Zang Ba is in danger! I hope this person can retain his strength and at least delay Cao Pi for a while."
Liu Mang hurriedly wrote a letter to the cheap dad in Chengdu, hoping that Liu Bei could respond as soon as possible and never let Cao Wei have a chance to breathe.
…
Chengdu.
After learning that Liu Mang had attacked Fancheng, Liu Bei immediately left Qinchuan, reunited with Ma Chao, and headed for Chang'an together.
"Meng Qi, if he comes to Chang'an again at this time, he will definitely conquer the old capital!"
Pang De held a big sword and looked towards Chang'an. They had come here that day to avenge Ma Teng.
"Ling Ming, revenge is a small thing, but reviving the Han Dynasty is a big thing."
After Ma Chao's incident with Peng Yi, his whole mentality changed drastically.
The once violent and arrogant Ma Mengqi seemed to have disappeared, replaced by the great Han Liangzhou Muma Chao.
"Brother! Ling Ming!"
Ma Dai rode up and said with a frown: "Huns and Xianbei cavalry appeared nearby!"
"I didn't expect there would be those barbarians near Chang'an!"
While the three were discussing, they saw a man sitting on a four-wheeled vehicle, wearing a crane cloak and holding a feather fan, floating like an immortal.
"Presumably, Cao Pi gave those foreigners benefits and asked them to help defend the city."
Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan lightly, and then looked at the three of them: "There is something that needs help from three generals!"
"Liang has received the news that His Majesty has died in Fancheng...The Queen was buried for him."
"The person who started the fiasco was none other than the usurper and traitor Cao Pi!"
What? The emperor is dead?
Ma Chao was a little moved. His father Ma Teng kept talking about reviving the Han Dynasty, but now the Han Dynasty has even lost the emperor!
"Everyone should know that a family cannot be without a master for a day, and a country cannot be without a king for a day."
"Liang is only willing to discuss this matter with three people."
"Tomorrow I hope Meng Qi will add more clothes to the King of Hanzhong."
Add some clothes?
Ma Chao was confused, "Sir, it's easy to talk about adding clothes, but I don't know what clothes to add?"
Zhuge Liang smiled calmly: "Liang, I want to wear the yellow robe of the King of Hanzhong!"
