Guo Jia reminded Cao Cao to beware of Liu Bei's lent troops from Liu Biao, and launch a surprise attack while his side led his army back to aid and attack Wancheng.
The situation is now unfavorable, and Chang'an and Hefei are both attacked by enemy forces. Under such circumstances, any city is extremely critical. Wancheng, which is a barrier to Xuchang, cannot be missed.
It is conceivable that if Liu Bei could borrow troops from Liu Biao and attack Wancheng, the troops he was carrying would definitely not be weak. Although Wancheng was guarded by Xu Huang, it could not ensure safety.
In case, it is also very necessary to set aside some people to help Xu Huang protect Wancheng.
Cao Cao stayed Gao Shun and Guo Jia in Wancheng to assist Xu Huang, and also sent 20,000 more troops to Xu Huang, so that he must defend the barrier of Wancheng.
At the same time, Cao Cao ordered Xiahou Yuan to lead the tiger and leopard cavalry and 50,000 elite troops, and transferred Xu Rong, the former Liangzhou general, to Xiahou Yuan as his deputy general, and took Jia Xu as his army to quickly rush to Chang'an.
After transferring Zhang Liao, Le Jin led 30,000 elite troops to support Hefei.
Cao Cao returned to Xuchang and took charge of the battle situation in various places. If he found that the situation in a certain place was unfavorable, he could also be dispatched in time.
Originally, Lu Xun, as a military officer in the trap camp, should have helped him protect Wancheng under Gao Shun's command. However, Sun Jian, who attacked Hefei, had the hatred of extermination, and Lu Xun had the intention to fight Sun Jian. Therefore, after obtaining Gao Shun's consent, Lu Xun asked Cao Cao, hoping to transfer him to Hefei to assist General Zhang Liao and Li Dian to defend the city and fight against Sun Jian.
Facing Lu Xun's request, Cao Cao thought for a while and agreed. Cao Cao knew very well about Lu Xun's growth in recent years. It can be said that he had reached the point where he could stand alone. Moreover, his character was calm and steady. Although the hatred between him and Sun Jian was as deep as the sea, his reason would not be destroyed by hatred.
Originally, Xiahou Dun wanted to stay in Wancheng and continue to compete with Liu Bei, but unlike Lu Xun's request, Cao Cao did not agree to Xiahou Dun. First, it was because Xiahou Dun was strong and easily influenced by hatred to make things worse, which made things misleading; second, he was in such a dilemma, and there must be an undercurrent in the court. When he returned to Xuchang, he must have a commander who could control the place. If necessary, he could use it as his sharp blade and start a massacre.
Joining Sun Jian and Ma Teng, they divided their troops into two groups, and at the same time attacked Cao Cao, making it difficult to consider the beginning and end. How can such a huge and exquisite layout not make people sigh?
Although Sun Jian has been fighting with Liu Biao in recent years, his relationship is extremely bad. However, Cao Cao even had a grudge against Sun Jian to kill his son. Once Jingzhou fell, Cao Cao's next target would inevitably target Jiangdong. Therefore, it was not difficult to send envoys to persuade Sun Jian to send troops.
Jiangdong is much stronger than Jiangdong in the same period of history. In another time and space history, Sun Jian was killed by Huang Zu early, and Sun Ce was wandering for a long time before borrowing a man from Yuan Shu and occupying Jiangdong. However, just a few years after Sun Ce pacified Jiangdong, he was accidentally injured by an assassin and died in the end, which made Jiangdong, who had stabilized for a while, was severely injured again. After Sun Quan ascended the throne, it developed for a long time before Jiangdong improved. However, even so, Jiangdong only barely had the strength to resist Cao Cao before the Battle of Chibi.
However, in today's era, Sun Jian did not die unexpectedly, and occupied Jiangdong until now. Over such a long time, Sun Jian worked hard to govern and train troops, and was like a hero in the side. Although his strength was not as good as Cao Cao today, it was probably not much inferior to Yuan Shao in the past. Therefore, it was not difficult for Sun Jian to recruit 100,000 elite troops and go north to attack Hefei.
It is easy to invite Sun Jian to send troops, but it is difficult for Sun Jian to fundamentally pose a threat to Cao Cao, and it may not be enough to retreat from Xinye. Compared with Sun Jian, Ma Teng in Xiliang also has a great threat to Cao Cao. If Ma Teng and Sun Jian can raise troops at the same time, Cao Cao can only withdraw his troops and Xinye's siege can be solved.
Although Zhuge Liang was wise, he had never met Ma Teng before, so he could not have a thorough understanding of his character.
However, although Zhuge Liang could not know much about Ma Teng, Liu Bei knew Ma Teng quite well. According to Liu Bei, Ma Teng seemed rough, but in fact he was also a scheming person. If he had no big interests involved, he might not have easily gotten into evil with Cao Cao.
According to Liu Bei's description, Zhuge Liang roughly thought of the plan to lead Ma Teng to attack Cao. In order to ensure that the plan was successful, Zhuge Liang sent Yi Ji to Dong Cheng's mansion in Xuchang to explain the interests of the other party, and finally successfully persuaded Dong Cheng.
Dong Cheng then met the emperor and asked the emperor to issue an edict to order Ma Teng to attack Cao Cao. After the matter was completed, he would become the general and be granted the title of Liang Duke. He could even allow him to rule himself as long as he was ostensibly surrendered to the Han Dynasty and Liangzhou.
Facing such conditions, Ma Teng could not be moved. What a glory it would be to be the emperor personally awarded the duke! Although Yuan Shao had also been the Duke of Ye, he was a self-proclaimed person at that time, and was completely different from the nature of the emperor personally awarded it.
The place of Liangzhou is self-governing, which makes Ma Teng even more excited. Although all regions are now in a state of autonomy of princes and the court is almost unable to govern, being recognized by the emperor is definitely another level of satisfaction.
Under such generous conditions, Ma Teng was unable to refuse and eventually pulled all the soldiers who could fight in Liangzhou into the army and formed an army of 200,000 to attack Chang'an.
The emperor was very reluctant to grant Ma Teng the conditions for Liangzhou to govern the country. In the eyes of the emperor, the end of this could only be to make Ma Teng the next powerful minister, and a powerful minister who was more harmful than Cao Cao. However, when Dong Cheng said to him that while Ma Teng raised his troops, Liu Bei and Sun Jian would also send troops to serve the king. After the eradication of Cao Cao, with the intervention of these two forces, the emperor could completely put aside his promise to Ma Teng. Unless Ma Teng dared to rebel openly, under the pressure of Liu Bei and Sun Jian at the same time, Ma Teng would only complain a few times and would never dare to do anything extreme. After Dong Cheng's explanation, the emperor promised to issue an edict.