Li Jue was in a bad mood at the moment, extremely bad.
The reason was very simple. Cao Cao came and came to Luoyang City in front. He led an army of 50,000 to stand in front of him and stood between him and the Han Emperor.
If you want to recapture the Han Emperor, you must first destroy Cao Cao's army.
However, it is easy to talk about wiping out Cao Cao's army, but is it easy to do it? Of course Li Jue has heard of Cao Cao's reputation for being good at fighting. Even if his achievements in the past few years are not extremely brilliant,
That is quite dazzling. In addition, although our own side has the upper hand in terms of the number of troops, the problem is that neither Guo Si nor Zhang Ji is of the same mind as him. Zhang Ji may not have a big problem, at least his nephew Zhang
Xiu was killed by Cao Cao's generals. He and Cao Cao had a grudge against him for killing his nephew. For the time being, he should be in the same boat. But the conflict between Guo Si and himself was almost irreconcilable. Although the two sides had stopped fighting in the past few days
The truce between the two armies is just to consider their immediate interests and forcefully postpone the time when the conflict breaks out. It does not solve any real problems. What if Guo Bin secretly stumbled himself during the war with Cao Cao?
, the consequences would be disastrous.
This war is really not optimistic. Li Jue frowned.
"Go and invite Mr. Wen He." Inadvertently, Li Jue thought of Jia Xu. Although that sinister man had a poor reputation before, he did seem to have some ability. Since he, Guo Si and others attacked Chang'an,
The plan was drawn up by Jia Xu. Under such a bad situation, he might have a way to deal with the situation at hand.
"See you, my lord." After Jia Xu entered, he bowed slightly to Li Jue and said respectfully.
Perhaps in his heart, Jia Xu didn't think much of people like Li Jue, but with his cautious character, since he was serving as a minister under the other party's account at this time, he must be respectful on the surface.
"Wen He, the situation is critical now, I wonder how Wen He can teach me?" Li Jue was anxious in his heart and did not care about any courtesy. As soon as he saw Jia Xu appearing, he asked eagerly.
"Xu has three strategies. Let the general decide on them." Of course Jia Xu knew why Li Jue came to him and had already made preparations.
"But it doesn't matter." Li Jue heard that Jia Xu had as many as three strategies, and his gloomy mood cleared up a lot. It seems that keeping Jia Xu in the first place was really the right decision.
"The first is to surrender to Cao Cao." However, as soon as Jia Xu said these words, Li Jue's newly improved mood became depressed again.
"Surrender? Are you kidding? I am a heinous person in the eyes of those scholars. They want to cut me to pieces. Even if I go to Cao Cao to plead guilty in person, can that guy tolerate me?" Li Jue asked with a sneer.
road.
"If the general wants to surrender to Cao Cao, I am willing to go and tell him as an envoy. I will guarantee with my life that I will convince Cao Cao not to harm the general's life." Deliberately ignoring the sarcasm in Li Jue's words, Jia Xu still said respectfully and calmly.
"I would rather die than surrender to Cao Cao!" Li Jue felt angry in his heart and shouted loudly, "Please tell me other strategies!"
"Secondly, the lord can invite Guo Si to discuss countermeasures, send swords and axes to kill him, and then quickly gather his army. Since Guo Si dies, his army will also be obtained by the lord. In this way, it can
Concentrate on fighting Cao Cao and don't worry about Xiao Qiang's disaster." Turning a blind eye to Li Jue's angry tone, Jia Xu continued to speak unhurriedly.
"Don't you know that this is the reason why Guo Aduo and I turned against each other? I kindly invited him to a banquet, but unexpectedly, that guy was afraid that I would set up a Hongmen banquet to harm him, so he actually sent troops to attack me. How unreasonable! Today
If I want to invite him to discuss matters again, how dare he come?" Li Jue did not agree at all with Jia Xu's second strategy.
"This moment is the same as that moment. Now that Cao Cao's troops are pressing down on the territory, it can be said to be a time of life and death. And precisely because of this, Guo Bang would never have expected that the Lord would harm him at this critical moment. If the Lord is willing to take this strategy from now on
, then Guo Si will die, and all his troops will return to the lord, and he will be more confident and more likely to win when confronting Cao Cao in the future." Jia Xu explained to Li Jue, his tone a little more gloomy than before.
"It's inappropriate, it's inappropriate..." Li Jue tilted his head and thought for a long time, and finally shook his head and rejected Jia Xu's second strategy, "Wen He will talk about the last strategy."
"Abandon the emperor and lead the army back to Chang'an to defend it. Our army is outnumbered by Cao's army. If we defend Chang'an, the enemy will definitely not be able to capture the city. After Cao's army retreated, our army sent troops westward to attack Ma Teng, and Han then conquered Liangzhou.
At that time, we will use Liangzhou as a basis to look for opportunities to conquer the world again." The first two strategies were rejected in succession. Jia Xu showed no annoyance or displeasure at all and calmly expressed the last strategy in his mind.
To conquer Liangzhou? Hearing these four words, the corner of Li Jue's mouth twitched slightly. People like him were originally from Liangzhou, but now they want to use the word "recover" when they want to return to Liangzhou? When thinking of these, Li Jue
Jue felt bursts of depression in her heart.
Of all the haters, the most hateful one was Ma Teng. It turned out that Ma Teng, like himself, was a subordinate of Dong Zhuo. When Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, he specially reported it to the court and appointed Ma Teng as the prefect of Wuwei.
He was guarding Liangzhou, and it was obvious that he valued Ma Teng very much. He didn't want Ma Teng to betray his trust, and Dong Zhuo was so kind to him, so he didn't want to repay it.
Although he did not send troops to help, he at least clearly stated his attitude and position - he was at odds with Dong Zhuo.
"Does Wen He have any other plans?" Although he hated Ma Teng deeply, Li Jue was unwilling to give up on Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty. After all, once he tasted the wonderful taste of controlling the emperor, it would be difficult to abandon him voluntarily.
That's all.
Jia Xu knew that all three of his strategies had been rejected, but he still didn't say anything more and just shook his head slowly.
"That's it. Na Wen and you, please step aside and let me think about it again." A trace of obvious disappointment flashed across Li Jue's face.
"My subordinates, please retire." Jia Xu said goodbye calmly, but before leaving, he had fully seen the disappointed look on Li Jue's face. He knew that although Li Jue said he would give it a second thought, in the end he was just
They are just perfunctory words. These three strategies of mine will never be used by Li Jue.
"Li Jue and Li Zhiran are just a man after all, not a leader who can be assisted." After leaving Li Jue's military camp, Jia Xu secretly sighed in his heart, "However, the world is so big, who can be my Jia Xu's leader?"
Lord, who can give full play to my talents?"
Looking to the east from a distance, Jia Xu secretly thought to himself: "Cao Mengde, a guy who can be called by Xu Zijiang as 'a capable minister in governing the world and a traitor in troubled times', what kind of person will he be?"