When facing Liu Ming's sincere words, Zhuge Liang also had a lot of feelings: It is absolutely interesting to be an emperor who speaks to this point, and it is definitely an example of a wise monarch, and it is absolutely for the people to consider it.
Well, for the sake of the people, I should not care about the support of my reputation. It’s a pity that I won’t give it to me at the same time. If I had known that Liu Ming was so knowledgeable and useful, why would I have to surrender to Sun Quan at the beginning? What a pity, now I have followed Sun Quan.
Now, looking back to Liu Ming, even if Liu Ming can use himself, how can he convince the public? How can he compete with those senior ministers? Even if a minister without loyalty and righteousness can be reused, how much can he reused?
Zhuge Liang is an absolutely smart person. Smart people don’t need to say too many words from others. As long as they have the meaning, they will be able to understand the pros and cons. As long as they can meet his standards, they will adopt them. Otherwise, that’s also considered
Not as smart as a person, he cannot be considered a qualified politician.
But! It is precisely because Zhuge Liang has considered too much that Zhuge Liang still lacks a suitable step, one that can maintain Zhuge Liang's loyalty and righteousness, one that can convince Zhuge Liang's decent and convincing public, and one that can preserve Zhuge Liang's positive political image.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang sighed and returned to the ground and said, "Your Majesty is indeed dedicated to serving the people, and is more benevolent than others. Liang is far inferior to you. With Your Majesty's ambitions, he will serve all the people in the world. Liang will understand it immediately. He should not be insignificant about his reputation and insults.
Your Majesty, but Liang was betrayed by the three visits of Wu Hou, and his loyalty and righteousness could not be decided. I would like to ask Your Majesty to fulfill my little loyalty and righteousness."
In Zhuge Liang's design, as long as he surrendered and lowered his attitude, it would definitely give the other party a hope of persuasion, and then Liu Ming would definitely persuade him again, which would highlight Zhuge Liang's loyalty and righteousness.
By comparing the minor meaning of individuals with the great meaning of the country, and taking a suitable step, we will make a decent transition.
However! Zhuge Liang never expected that Liu Ming had already considered this and had prepared a suitable step for Zhuge Liang so that Zhuge Liang would not have to find it himself.
Therefore, when Liu Ming heard that Zhuge Liang had the intention of moving, he took the initiative to kneel down to admit his orthodox status of Liu Ming, and immediately said with a smile: "Mr. Zhuge, there is no need to make any trouble for this. If the overall situation is settled today, Cao Cao
It will be destroyed just now. After Cao Cao is destroyed, with your opinion on the situation in Jiangnan, will Jiangnan have a broken heart? In my opinion, you only need to raise yourself here for a few days and wait for the ministers in Jiangnan to surrender.
Of course, he is a pillar of the court, so how can he say that he is complacent and unfaithful?"
As soon as Liu Ming said, Zhuge Liang suddenly realized it.
Now that Sun Quan has a huge power, even Sun Quan is not able to control it easily. For the sake of the stability of his own family, how can those Mengmen support Sun Quan without hope of victory? Without their own help
How could Sun Quan suppress those wealthy forces?
What's more, he was defeated by Xichuan, and the troops of Xichuan were empty. I think Xichuan had been taken away by Liming's army at this time. If Cao Cao was destroyed, what could Jiangnan do not surrender?
In this situation, without Zhuge Liang, Jiangnan, probably the only one who can control the main battlefield is Zhou Yu, but! Zhou Yu and Lu Su are life-and-death friends, and Sun Quan is extremely suspicious of Zhou Yu, so Zhou Yu understands that
After the situation, he would definitely not follow Sun Quan. Therefore, it was only a matter of time before Sun Quan was forced to lead the crowd to surrender due to the situation. I think this is why Liu Ming mentioned Jiangnan instead of Sun Quan.
If even Sun Quan surrendered, Zhuge Liang, as a subordinate of Sun Quan, would naturally be a member of Liu Ming, and he would not have to betrayed, and would naturally be unscathed from his loyalty and righteousness.
Zhuge Liang remained silent at that time, and everything was indifferent.
In fact, the current situation in Xichuan is as expected by Zhuge Liang. After Huang Yueying and Guan Yu captured Zhuge Liang, they immediately sent people to wear the clothes of captured soldiers and pretended to open the Jiange Pass in the name of returning to the city to urge grain.
Then he quickly captured the entire Xichuan territory with lightning speed.
The main troops in Xichuan were taken out by Zhuge Liang and captured by Guan Yu and the others. The meager troops left behind, facing Guan Yu and the others' army of tigers and wolves, would there be any way to block them? Not easily captured,
It's just a thousand surrender.
That speed! It's not much different from a fast marching, and this is the main reason why Sun Quan had no news about Xichuan for a long time.
If it weren't for Youzhou's campaign to appease the world, and there were too many Yi tribes in the Xichuan area, Guan Yu's army would have already taken over it.
There is no way, if those Yi tribes cannot deter them as soon as possible, and set rules and comfort them, and then they will form habits in the future, it will be difficult to assimilate them.
Therefore, after occupying Xichuan, Guan Yu's army blocked the news. On the one hand, they appeased the Yi tribes, and on the other hand, they took some rest of their troops, preparing to use this as a surprise soldier to attack Cao Cao and Sima Yi by surprise to pacify the world.
However, before Guan Yu's surprise soldier showed his power, something had happened to Cao Cao.
Cao Cao got Cheng Yu's final battle report and knew that Xu Du was besieged. He made a quick decision and immediately abandoned Lu Bu and mobilized all his troops to help Xu Du to ensure his political advantages and the safety of his hometown.
In Cao Cao's opinion, Cheng Yu was a capable person. Xu Du's city defense was extremely strong and the food inside was extremely abundant. What's wrong, Cheng Yu could also support Xu Du for ten days and half a month, and wait until Cao Cao returns
Under the encirclement of the troops, the surprise soldier sent by Liu Ming would inevitably be unable to escape the destruction.
However! When Cao Cao returned to the ground in Yaozhou, he sent out to explore the news about his return, it was really terrible.
Not to mention that Xu Du had been broken, most of the ground in Yaozhou had fallen into the hands of the Youzhou army. Moreover, this is not counting. According to rumors, Cao Cao's Xuzhou was also defeated by Liu Ming.
Cao Cao was immediately shocked. He never knew what fear was in his life. Cao Cao, who was always calm, was in a state of terror for the first time and was almost scared to death.
Then Cao Cao is not a fool. He has always been a military master. So Cao Cao understood more clearly and was even more afraid that Xuzhou and Chongzhou were occupied so quickly. Not to mention anything else, he just occupied those
How many people do you have to use for a city? And with so many military horses coming and Xuzhou’s food supply? Then how could Cao Cao fight with others?
At this time, Cao Cao had long since ignored how the Youzhou Army came. Even if he had thought about it clearly, what could those things be done? Could it be that the Youzhou Army that had appeared had disappeared?
Therefore, Cao Cao's current main consideration is how to defeat this Youzhou army and how to deal with the difficulties in the past.
But now, the troops are not as strong as the other, and the equipment is not as strong as the other. Now that there is no food or grass, the terrain of Cao Cao, what else can Cao Cao rely on? Cao Cao only feels a headache!
However, Cao Cao was very pleased that under this disadvantage, Xu Chu and other military generals all expressed their desire to live and perish with Cao Cao, which moved Cao Cao very much.
However, such passion alone cannot change Cao Cao's current predicament. In this situation where the overall strategic level is absolutely unfavorable, even if he is as clever as Xi Zhicai, there is no good idea for a while.
At this moment, Sima Yi stood up and said to Cao Cao: "I have a plan to escape the Prime Minister's suffering. It's just a matter of confidentiality and should not be known to outsiders."
At this time, Cao Cao was sick and went to the doctor, then waved his hand and retreated from his left and right.
When Sima Yi was in the process of Cao Cao said, "Prime Minister, the Youzhou army is good at fighting in the field. Now he has broken through the city and is waiting for us to return to the rescue. This is to siege the city and fight the aid. He wants to fight with our army in the field, and to attack our weaknesses with his strengths!"
Cao Cao had no good feelings for Sima Yi's opening remarks. With Cao Cao's military talent, how could he not know these? However, Cao Cao was looking forward to Sima Yi's amazing strategy, so he just said in a consistent manner: "Zhongda
,Don't I know, however, now my concern is actually how to repel these Youzhou troops. Yanzhou is my foundation, Xuzhou is my granary, and this is all necessary to be saved. What does Zhongda teach?
I?"
Sima Yi said calmly: "Our army's combat power is not as good as Youzhou. Now the overall strategy is lost again. The overall situation in the world has been decided, and it is really hard to make the manpower come true."
Cao Cao was furious: "Du! You said that there is a strategy, but it is difficult for me to escape. Could it be that I can't play with me?"
Cao Cao's eyes wide open and his eyes widened, and as long as Sima Yi was inappropriate in answering words, Cao Cao would definitely kill people.
However, even at such a moment, Sima Yi still said calmly: "Prime Minister, I do have a plan to escape the difficulties of inheriting the emperor, but it is not a result of war."
When Cao Cao heard this, he became interested. He calmed down and said to Sima Yi: "Oh? Could it be that Zhongda is preparing to follow Su Qin and Zhang Yi's achievements and go to discuss peace with Liu Ming, and persuade Liu Ming to retreat."
In Cao Cao's opinion, this is also a solution. As long as Liu Ming's army can go back first and lose some face and inner self, it doesn't matter. As long as the roots are still there, Cao Cao can still rise up again.
Sima Yi said expressionlessly: "Prime Minister, Liu Ming has accumulated a lot and developed a lot. He has worked hard for many years. The world is shocked. Now the overall situation has been settled. How could Liu Ming listen to others easily? Missing this great opportunity is probably Su Qin.
Zhang Yi’s resurrection could not touch his heart.”
Sima Yi said it very directly, and he just said to Cao Cao: How can there be such a good thing in the world?
Cao Cao obviously understood this truth very well. He was just facing a desperate situation and was somewhat wishful thinking. Now that Sima Yi pointed it out, he immediately said with anger: "In this way, what good strategies does Zhongda have?"