"Wen He, you once said that you could go to Luoyang to help me ask for surrender to Cao Cao and save my life..." Faced with such a tough force from Cao Cao, Li Jue was now really thinking about surrendering. Of course, the premise was that he
His life can be ensured, and his current status cannot be lost too much. "Go and tell Cao Aha that I, Li Jue, am willing to surrender to him, but he must ensure that I, Mr. Li,'s wealth and life are not in danger. I am now
If he wants to take away this position of Grand Sima, he has no choice but to at least make me a former general, and he must retain my title of Marquis of Chiyang."
Jia Xu smiled, how long had it been, and his lord was still having wild thoughts? He had told him words that could guarantee his life in front of Cao Cao after he surrendered, but that was based on Guo Si's tens of thousands of troops.
Under the premise that the situation is still alive, this request for surrender can ensure success. If Guo Si's army is not destroyed, the military potential of Li and Guo will reach 112,000. Together with Zhang Ji's troops, our own troops can be put into the battlefield.
The army has a total of 130,000 people, which is more than two and a half times that of Cao Cao's army. If the gap between the enemy's and our own forces is so huge, no matter how hard Cao Cao's army can fight, they may not be able to win in a head-on battle, but will suffer heavy losses.
.In this case, Cao Cao must have many concerns about starting a war. If he goes to the condition of "Li Jue surrenders, but his life must be saved", in order to preserve his own strength, Cao Cao does not want his army to suffer too much damage.
Most likely you can agree.
But now the situation has changed drastically, Guo Si's army was wiped out, and it was a tragic defeat in an instant. As a result, the morale of Cao Cao's army must be strong, and the soldiers in Li Jue's army know that the strength of their army is on par with Guo Si's army.
At that time, I am afraid that when facing Cao Cao's army, I will become frightened. The balance of strength between the two sides has inevitably tilted towards Cao Cao's side. How could Cao Cao tolerate Li Jue's life when he was at an absolute advantage?
What's more, a group of nobles and nobles in Luoyang City had a bitter feud with Li Jue, and they wanted to cut Li Jue into pieces as soon as possible. If they could exchange their lives for his own advancement, Cao Cao would not do it unless his brain was filled with water.
Will do this.
Li Jue's idea of saving his life was stupid enough, but what Jia Xu didn't expect was that this was not the limit of his stupidity. Li Jue even hoped that he could become a former general under Cao Cao and retain his position.
, don’t you know that this is simply a daydream! The four generals of the front, back, left and right are second only to Jiuqing in terms of rank. Among the generals, they are inferior to the generals of the Four Expeditions and the Four Towns, but compared to the generals of the Four Ans.
, General Siping is higher. Although Cao Cao raised troops to serve the king this time, he will definitely be rewarded based on his merits, and his official position will inevitably be promoted. But at least at this time, his general position is General Zhendong, one of the four town generals.
And I heard that among his generals, the one with the highest rank was only General Wuwei. It would be better for Li Jue to ask for a former general who was only one level lower than Cao Cao as soon as he opened his mouth, even if Cao Cao did not originally intend to kill Li Jue.
After hearing his overestimating conditions, I am afraid that I will be immediately aroused to murderous intent.
The only way at the moment was to flee back to Chang'an with his troops, hold the city tightly, and wait for the enemy to retreat. Jia Xu also knew that under this situation, he would probably consider adopting Li Jue's suggestion of withdrawing troops from Chang'an again.
But Jia Xu did not do this, but chose to keep the idea in his stomach.
"Nuo." Although he knew that he couldn't do anything, Jia Xu didn't say a word, and simply agreed to Li Jue's request for him to surrender. He needed a chance, a chance to get out of Li Jue's tent, and a chance to surrender.
Find another opportunity for yourself, an opportunity for your talents to be better utilized.
————————————————————————————————————As Jia Xu expected, Cao Cao responded to Guo Si’s stupid behavior of leading his army to death.
At this time, I was laughing.
"I was worried about how to deal with the enemy's army of more than 100,000 people. Guo Aduo immediately came to help me solve my problem. This is really very satisfying!" Cao Cao was in a good mood and joked to everyone around him.
"Then my lord should reward him well. If all the heroes in the world know that a person who is so loyal to the lord ends up with his body exposed on the battlefield, they will probably think that the lord intends to treat the meritorious officials harshly.
" Along with Cao Cao's topic, Guo Jia also made a little joke.
"Hahahaha——!" Cao Cao was very happy when he heard this, and everyone else was also amused by Guo Jia's words.
But it is true that as Cao Cao and Guo Jia said, Guo Si's act of sending troops without authorization was indeed a great help to his own army. If Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji and others joined forces, they would face
With such a huge military strength, even if Cao Cao's army is superior to its opponent in combat power, it can only temporarily avoid its edge, but it will never be possible to face it head-on.
In fact, after Cao Cao welcomed the Han Emperor Liu Xie, he discussed countermeasures with his advisers and made numerous considerations, but he never had any intention of confronting the enemy head-on. The decisions he made were generally inseparable from the word "anti-Jian". Li Jue and Guo
Everyone knows that the relationship between Si and Si is extremely bad. Although they are united because of interests, there is no trust between them at all. As long as he uses strategies and cleverly provokes and divides the relationship between the two, Cao Cao is sure to make them both
Turn against each other, and then seize the best opportunity to defeat it in one fell swoop.
But Guo Si's stupid move omitted all these troublesome procedures. After the loss of tens of thousands of his troops, although Li Jue and Zhang Ji's troops were still slightly superior in numbers, their morale must have dropped to the extreme.
, there is no chance of winning in front of the powerful own army. For this, how could Cao Cao not "thank" Guo Si.
"My lord, someone asked to see you. He claimed to be the envoy sent by Li Jue." Just when Cao Cao was about to make a joke, the guards from outside came in to report.
"Li Jue's envoy? What's the purpose of coming? Let him come in." Cao Cao was slightly startled when he heard this. The situation had already reached such a desperate stage. Li Jue actually sent someone here. What on earth did he do?
And for what.
I saw a scribe who was nearly fifty years old slowly walking in. For a moment, the eyes of everyone in the tent were focused on him.
"Jia Xu, Doctor Guanglu, pays homage to General Zhendong." Jia Xu bowed to Cao Cao in a very standard manner and said in a neither humble nor condescending manner.
Jia Xu, Cao Cao, and everyone here are all familiar with this name.
Hearing the name Jia Xu, Cao Cao looked at him with great interest. Jia Xu did not shy away and also observed Cao Cao carefully.