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    Chapter 159 "Seeing through Cao Cao's plan"

    Cao Cao personally led the army and came with three forwards on the left, right and center led by generals Wang Shuang, Cao Ren and Cao Hong with murderous intent.  *1*1* They claim to have an army of 500,000, clamoring to eliminate Liu Jia's troops and capture Liu Jia alive to avenge Zhang Heman's favor, and threaten to conquer Long County and regain Xiliang.

    After receiving the report from the scouts, Liu Jia and others stepped up the relevant preparations, and also allowed the soldiers to finish their rest and recuperation that had just begun and actively prepare for war: repairing the city, transporting materials to defend the city, and ordering migrant workers and prisoners to come from Hanzhong day and night.  Chengdu even transported large quantities of grain, grass, bows and arrows and other logistical materials to Longxian, Qingshui City, and Lueyang City.

    Seeing Liu Jia looking inexplicably excited and eager to try, Pang Tong reminded with some suspicion: "King Shu, are you sure Cao Cao will send an army to attack us directly?".

    "Of course, we have done so many things and brought his troops to such a state. It would be the strangest thing if he didn't come. What? Does Shiyuan suspect that they are just showing off?" Liu Jia asked.

    "I have such a hunch. It seems that Cao Cao was too impulsive to do this." Pang Tong said uncertainly.

    "Impulsive? Shi Yuan is not mistaken, is he? One hundred and ten thousand horses were completely wiped out by us. Xiliang, which is rich in fine horses, was snatched away by us. He only had less than half of his territory in Yongzhou left. Now he has run out.  Even if he is not avenging the 110,000-strong army, but just wants to stop us from going deeper into the interior, he should come out for a while, so that he won't let our 200,000-strong army march straight in, right?" Liu Jia quickly retorted.

    Pang Tong said: "Tong thinks that Cao Cao should understand that his current troops have not finished resting, and winter is coming soon. It seems a little bit that he is in such a hurry to come out and travel such a long distance"

    Liu Jia smiled and said: "Jia Dao thinks that Cao Cao has every reason to come to Long County to attack us now."

    Seeing Pang Tong looking at him, Liu Jia continued: "First, in order to take revenge and stop us from moving forward, 110,000 troops is definitely not a small number, and General Zhang He is not an unknown person. He and his soldiers were just like this.  We ate it. We have to show something, otherwise no one will fight so hard in the future. In addition, he lost half of the state, which made Cao Cao even more angry. Secondly, Cao Cao can be said to have used the emperor's power to command  As a prince, the current emperor is his greatest resource, and he has always considered himself orthodox. Now that Sun Quan is proclaimed emperor, if he does not express any objection or use war to divert the attention of the world, then his status in the eyes of the scholar-bureaucrats will be  It has to fall. Zhui Piao Astronomy.com He has not been king for a long time, and he must show some achievements to everyone. He can't let people see that all he does is lose troops, lose cities and lose territory. Cao Cao should go all out to prepare for both public and private affairs.  This battle will give the world the impression that we are annihilating us with all our strength, so that he can give an explanation to the world and himself."

    Pang Tong also smiled and said: "The king of Shu is trying to figure out ordinary people with a normal heart. Unfortunately, Cao Cao is a powerful man in the world. He can also be said to be a man of great talent and great strategy. He can let go no matter whether he wins or loses. He will never do anything that he knows he can't do."  No way. Xiliang expressed that it was lost. But why didn't he understand that it was not easy for Cao Cao to get a stable Xiliang that could continuously import good horses and soldiers to the Central Plains? Maybe he had not considered this Xiliang, half of Xiliang, in the first place.  Yongzhou was included in his territory. Now that Sun Quan is proclaimed emperor, and he leads troops abroad, he does not necessarily have to go to war to divert the attention of the scholar-bureaucrats. Not to mention these, the main reason is that he has traveled such a long distance to attack, and he really has little chance of winning.  , we are here to wait for work, and we have a city to rely on. And there are tens of thousands of newly reorganized troops behind us that can be used. His 320,000 troops have no obvious advantage at all. Another thing is that our morale is now strong.  , it can be said that they are taking advantage of the prestige of victory. On the other hand, Cao's army has just failed, and the morale of the army and the people is low. At this time, the risk of the expedition is too great."

    When Liu Jia heard this, his heart began to change, because he asked for advice: "According to Shi Yuan's guess"

    Pang Tong said: "This Cao Cao is probably just pretending to be brave. Whether they can reach Longxian City is still unknown, let alone that they will attack Qingshui City and Lueyang City after they break Longxian City."

    Liu Jiadao: "Then there is no need for us to carry out large-scale construction in the three cities. There is no need to spend a lot of money, materials and energy to build cities in these three places?"

    Pang Tong said: "I think so. Of course, Tong is just guessing now. After all, Cao's army is still rushing here. Will they really stop? Or when will they stop, so for those who are not at the forefront,  We still need to step up the expansion and repair of Longxian City, and prepare sufficient defense materials. As for Qingshui City and Lueyang City, we only need to make some repairs."

    Pang Tong¡¯s few words reduced the workload by almost two-thirds, which not only saved countless money, but also greatly reduced the workload of the prisoners.After the construction of the Second City of Yangcheng came to a halt, the construction in Longxian County was faster - of course it was faster since the manpower was concentrated.

    As expected by Pang Tong, the menacing Cao army advanced for a distance and stopped more than a hundred miles away from Long County.  After leading the Chinese army out of Chang'an for only 400 miles, Cao Cao stopped. These large armies were more than 100 miles away from the forward, and the rear army was closer, almost just out of the suburbs of Chang'an.  These Cao troops were stationed in various cities, seemingly forgetting their purpose of coming out. The only thing that could be said to be related to this dispatch was that they sent a large number of detective horses to detect intelligence around Longxian City, Qingshui City, and Lueyang City.

    Cao Cao was a little disappointed when he heard that the three cities in the Zigzag layout of Liu Jia had recently stopped the construction of underground defenses for two cities. He said to Jia Xu next to him: "Wen He, this kid Liu Jia really can't be underestimated. Obviously we  The army was marching towards them, but they dared to give up the defense reinforcement of the two cities. How could they accurately estimate from the beginning that we would not really kill them? It was a bit unwilling for our plan to be seen through by them like this.  "

    Jia Xu also looked frustrated and nodded: "This kid Liu Jia has never suffered a loss since his debut. Last time we asked General Zhang He to compete with him, we were a little too careless. Not only did Liu Jia see it accurately,  He is also very courageous. If Xu is in charge of troops in Long County, he may be suspicious, but he is really afraid to stop preparing for city defense. If he is not afraid of 10,000, he is afraid of the worst. Why is this guy so confident? "

    Cao Cao sighed and said: "If Liu Jia is not eliminated, I will not be able to sleep and eat well. How about we take advantage of our strategy and secretly transfer all the troops from Chang'an over, secretly move over, and capture Qingshui City and Lueyang City first?"  Occupy it, isolate Long County City first, and then destroy it after a while?"

    Jia Xu was stunned for a moment, and his eyes quickly looked at the map

    Chapter 159 "Seeing through Cao Cao's plan"
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